Richard J. Bautch is professor of humanities at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. He is the author of two books on the exilic and postexilic periods, Developments in Genre between Postexilic Penitential Prayers and the Psalms of Communal Lament (Society of Biblical Literature) and Glory and Power, Ritual and Relationship: The Sinai Covenant in the Postexilic Period (T&T Clark). He is also co-editor of a volume on aesthetics, Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics (Society of Biblical Literature).