Joseph Blenkinsopp

Demanding Our Attention

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The sadly posthumous appearance of Christian ethicist Emily Arndt's Demanding Our Attention marks a brave attempt, and one rare among professional ethicists, to cross over from her own discipline to that of the biblical specialist, and to do so by engaging in a close and sustained reading of one of the most famously challenging and subversive texts in the Hebrew Bible. In choosing the binding of Isaac (Genesis 22) as her case study . . . Arndt illustrates the transformative possibilities latent in the act of close, attentive, and imaginative reading of biblical narrative — in effect, a different way of doing ethics.”

Isaiah

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This addition to the Church's Bible series makes available a remarkably rich selection from the great volume of Christian commentary on Isaiah written during the church's first millennium. It is significant both historically, as a contribution to the history of biblical interpretation, and theologically, as an expression of faith nourished by an attentive and devout reading of 'the sacred page.'”