Mark S. Gignilliat (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, and serves as canon theologian at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of several books, including A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism.

• ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Scripture's Material Form1. Scripture and Canon2. Sanding with the Grain: Final Form and Canonical Shape3. Canonical Intentionality4. Canon and Textual Criticism: The Search for the Christian BiblePart 2: Scripture's Subject Matter5. God as Triune and Exegetical Metaphysics6. The Trinity and the Old TestamentEpilogueIndexes