Who is Bakhtin? -- Birth and Schooling (1895-1918) -- Young Adulthood to Exile (1918-1930) -- Exile to Discovery (1930-mid-1960s) -- Discovery to Death (mid-1960s-1975) -- Bakhtin, Postmodernism, and the Bible -- What Does Bakhtin Offer? -- Introductory Contexts -- Four questions for biblical scholars -- Four worldviews shaping Bakhtin -- An Architectonics of Bakhtin's Thought -- How authoring works -- Implications of authoring for ethics and aesthetics -- How to Push Bakhtin -- Saul Struggling to Stay: a Bakhtinian Reading of 1 Samuel 17:55-20:42 -- Saul's Active Authoring: 17:55-18:30 -- Saul Begins to Lose Initiative: 19:1-24 -- Saul Is Authored by David and Jonathan: 20:1-42 -- How do Other Scholars use Bakhtin? -- Kenneth M. Craig Jr. -- Craig on Jonab -- Craig on Esther -- Carol A. Newsom -- Newsom on theory -- Newsom on Isaiah and Lamentations -- Ilana Pardes -- Pardes on selected biblical texts -- Pardes on Exodus -- Robert M. Polzin -- Polzin on Deuteronomy, Joshua, and Judges -- Polzin on 2 Samuel -- Where Can We Go with Bakhtin?