Nomadic Text

"Brennan Breed's Nomadic Text is not just a theory of biblical reception history, but is also a reevaluation of text criticism and its search for the original text. . . [He] makes a compelling argument that all biblical interpretation is reception history.1.2 Oct. 2014"—Journal of the Bible and Its Reception

"Breed's theoretically rich and engaging methodology will be useful to anyone interested in how texts are interpreted and deployed in social life."—New Books Network

"Nomadic Text will undoubtedly be a crucial contribution to the future directions of biblical studies, as well as to understanding what biblical studies has, in one sense, always already been doing."—Modern Believing

"Brennan W. Breed argues that rather than attempting to anchor biblical texts in one particular context, scholars must recognize that it is in the very nature of the text to remain open to new contexts and to future interpretation. That is, one should think about a text in terms of its potential powers rather than its essence."—Scott C. Jones, Covenant College

"Seeking a new theoretical approach to reception history, Brennan W. Breed critiques the very mainstay of modern biblical criticism and offers a new approach to reception history—and a well-thought-out and persuasive one at that—but a new critical challenge to the well-trod methods of biblical criticism."—Mark Brummitt, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School