Matt Thorne finds some insight amid the waffle

T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film
Edited by Richard Walsh, Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 465pp, £89

According to Richard Walsh, the editor of this book, we are living through a golden age of biblical film. Alongside the films themselves – and the examples he gives in his introduction are Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, both released in 2014 and neither of them much loved – there is, he suggests, a flourishing in the field of biblical film criticism.