"a highly original study, written with wit and learning." - David Jasper

Reviewed in: Church Times, 23 February 2001Highlights: "...her illuminating commentary on Revelation as the climax of a divine comedy is typical of the best features of this literary analysis of the Bible."

"...a contribution to the flourishing discipline of narrative criticism in biblical interpretation...Murphy wants to do as little theorizing as possible. Rather, she wants only to remind us that the Bible is written imaginatively, and to persuade us that the best way to understand what it is about is to dramatize it...The book is lucidly written, in an appropriately witty and humorous way...Dr Murphy is after all engaged in teaching systematic theology, and the book makes an even more remarkable contribution to the reconsideration of fundamental topics in that discipline. It could also be read with enjoyment by people who have no background or interest in systematic theology as conventionally understood."--New Blackfriars, July/August 2001