This volume follows the same interpretative approach to the biblical text which Dr Kreitzer proposed in his earlier volume on the New Testament. Here again five diverse essays creatively weave together discussion of select passages from the Old Testament, some classic works of World Literature, and the film adaptions of both. Included are studies of how the Ten Commandments has been translated into film, how Herman Melville's Moby-Dick invites a study of both Job and Jonah, how John Steinbeck's East of Eden builds upon the story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4, how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein picks up themes taken from the creation stories, and how Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms might be seen as a modern version of Qoheleth.