Burke Long has written an uncommonly important and fascinating study in 'the history of the discipline' of Old Testament studies. . . . Long has taught us much about our recent past and temptations to agonistic scholarship. We may infer from his work a great deal more about our common future in scholarship.-Walter Brueggemann, Theology TodayThis book examines the social formation and ideological practices of William Foxwell Albright, the gifted Johns Hopkins linguist and archaeologist who, along with a fiercely loyal and organized group of former students, exerted uncommon influence on the substance and direction of mid-twentieth century biblical studies. Albright and these devoted students (such as G. Ernest Wright, Frank Moore Cross, Jr., David Noel Freedman, John Bright, George E. Mendenhall) came to be known as the "Albright School." Burke Long here treats the field of biblical studies, not as a repository of objective knowledge, but as a culture created by like-minded people...

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