Brian M. Britt is a professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. He works at the intersection of cultural theory and biblical studies on questions of modernity and tradition. His most recent book is Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition (Sheffield Phoenix, 2011). His other books are Walter Benjamin and the Bible (Continuum, 1996); Rewriting Moses: The Narrative Eclipse of the Text (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2004); and the coedited volume (with Alexandra Cuffel) Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World (Palgrave, 2007).