Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Miller, Charles William | Copyright information

BYRON G. CURTIS, Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis (SBL Academia Biblica 25; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006). Pp. xiv + 328. Paper $44.95.

This contribution to the Academia Biblica series is from Curtis's doctoral dissertation (2005), directed by Peter Enns at Westminster Theological Seminary. The extent to which the dissertation was revised for publication is not readily apparent, nor indicated in any way in the bo...

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