This is a collection of essays edited by Robert Jenson and Carl Braaten. As the title makes clear, each essay is about taking back the Bible from the academy. Do not misunderstand. Each author expresses the appreciation for the contributions that historical studies have offered to the Church. They are not suggesting that we return to some “Pre-Critical Age” of interpretation. The problem, as they see it, is when biblical interpretation is undertaken apart from faith. The attempt to be “objective” or to pursue hermeneutics apart from the Tradition and Creeds of the Church reduces the Bible to nothing more than one Ancient Near Eastern document among others. For the Church the Bible is not a mere book; It is the word from which we expect to hear the voice of God. In this sense “the Bible exists only within the church” (89). Outside of the faith community this book is not “scripture.” At best it is mere history; at worst it is archaic myth. To sum up, in Jenson’s own words, “The primary hermeneutical principle for the church’s reading of Scripture is—I want to insist—simply the church’s own life ... the Scriptures live and have their churchly meaning within the church’s *liturgy*” (90). This is a short collection (137 pages) which I highly recommend to anyone interested in hermeneutics in general and theological hermeneutics in particular.