Well, I am not an academic, and certainly not a biblical studies scholar, but I really enjoyed reading this book.

For anyone with more than a passing interest in the forms of language (narrative, story-telling, and so on) found in the Tanach, this is a remarkably accessable treatment, putting these long-studied texts in context with other forms from antiquity. In the later chapters, there was much that I could not fully appreciate with my amature background, but that didn't detract from the overall trajectory of the work, or my enjoyment of it.