Brian Rainey is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.
This is a thoroughly researched, multidisciplinary monograph which utilises a wide range of scholarship in order to trace portrayals of the 'foreigners' in biblical texts, and a variety of other relevant primary evidence. Rainey writes thoughtfully and brings strong theoretical foundations into dialogue with incisive analysis of texts. The monograph illustrates and highlights the various nuances of the enduring, and never more topical, nature of xenophobia, ethnicity, and religion. - Katherine Southwood, University of Oxford, UK