Biblical scholarship like many other disciplines has become increasingly isolated. As a
result the field has not borrowed as much from other areas of scholarship as it could have and
has exerted a smaller impact upon the larger intellectual community. A significant portion of
Pagans and Practitioners deals with how the New Testament can be read as a rebuttal of Pagan
rivals. In doing so greater linkages with other disciplines are reestablished. Discussion of
how the tools developed by Biblical criticism can serve other secular disciplines are
provided. Collectively this book explores how Biblical criticism can exert a greater impact
upon the intellectual world.
