Book of the Week

The book of the week is a Baylor University Press imprint of David Lyle Jeffrey's book, Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture. Dr. Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities.

John V. Fleming, the Fairchild Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, stated the following about this book: "This wide-ranging collection of essays, dealing with important subjects in biblical, medieval, and modern literature and theology, is in a double sense a major work of Christian scholarship. From the purely scholarly point of view it deals confidently and with finesse with disparate phases of the rich and variegated history of Christian thought; but it is also refreshed and animated by an authorial faith-perspective shared by great humanists from Augustine through Erasmus and More to Toynbee and R. W. Southern."

In 2003, Dr. Jeffrey received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature/Modern Language Association. His current research interests involve the relationship of biblical humanities to literary and artistic expression.

A link to purchase the book will be found in the right column.