"The Labour of Reading provides an example of the work of reading biblical texts in new and distinct ways. Gathered to honor the scholarship and teaching of Robert Culley, these essays seek to carry on his legacy by exploring the edges of biblical scholarship. Covering both the Hebrew and Greek Bibles, they range through cultural and literary studies, philosophy, sociology, and feminism, among other disciplines. The unifying motif is the need to work hard at and labor with the text: the legacy of Robert Culley."--BOOK JACKET.