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Craig G. Bartholomew, the current H. Evan Runner Professor of Philosophy at Redeemer University College, has authored an impressive volume on biblical hermeneutics, written from an evangelical perspective (p. 40). Educated in both South Africa (Potchefstroom) and Europe (Oxford and Bristol), the author skillfully weaves together his wealth of insights on biblical interpretation, one of the most rudimentary aspects of Christian inquiry, into his work, Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics. Overall, Bartholomew’s text is a welcome relief for modern readers of the Bible who have been looking for an integrative survey on the various interpretative approaches to Scripture. Bartholomew credits Meir Sternberg for having encouraged him to venture out to produce a “positive, constructive work” in the likes of The Poetics of Hebrew Narrative, “rather than trying to follow all the current fashions” (p. 408). The author succeeds remarkably in achieving this goal with his accessible writing style, albeit his dense treatment of various topics in Christian philosophy and theology ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Hans-Georg Gadamer in this volume.