The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical ManifestoWhat is a "biblical scholar"? Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood provide a thoroughly defamiliarizing and frequently entertaining re description of this peculiar academic species and its odd disciplinary habitat. The modern and biblical scholar, they argue, is a product of the Enlightenment. Even when a biblical scholar imagines that she is doing something else entirely (something confessional, theoretical, literary, or even postmodern), she is