'Readers who have now lost their slim Canongate Canons , or never saw them should now cry hallelujah... the prefaces have returned, with extra items, as a 33-essay volume... spend your Easter with Canongate's extremely good book' INDEPENDENT 'Like the best conversation: intellectually rigorous and controversial, yet always alert to the profound and enduring significance of these ancient stories for today's rather more fractured, dislocated humanity' UK METRO 'It's worth the cover price just to see such an extraordinary collection of names gathered on the same contents page. Overwhelmingly, these introductions kindle a desire to look at the original texts with fresh eyes' OBSERVER 'Relish the way [it] demonstrate[s] the Bible's supreme status as a work of myth and poetry and its inadequacies as a factual discourse' TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT 'Revelations offers a series of thought-provoking essays, rigorously argued in a multitude of voices... Invigorating' DAILY MAIL