Building Babel / Danna Nolan Fewell -- Leviticus and nausea / Jon L. Berquist -- Moses' final examination: the book of Deuteronomy / Donald C. Polaski -- Dialogues of life and monologues of death: Jephthah and Jephthah's daughter in Judges 10:6-12:7 / Dennis T. Olson -- The secret of succession: Elijah, Elisha, Jesus, and Derrida / Hugh S. Pyper -- Divining Ruth for international relations / Musa W. Dube -- Is Hokmah an Israelite goddess, and what should we do about it? / David Penchansky -- Nocturnal egression: exploring some margins of the Song of Songs / Fiona C. Black -- Isaiah 5-6: called and sent / Peter D. Miscall -- An ending that does not end: the book of Jeremiah / Walter Brueggemann -- An abusive God? Identity and power/gender and violence in Ezekiel 23 / Mary E. Shields -- Called to do justice? A Bhabhian reading of Micah 5 and 6:1-8 / Erin Runions -- How to read a tainted text: the wicked husbandmen in a post-holocaust context / Tania Oldenhage -- School's in session: the making and unmaking of docile disciple bodies in Mark / Deborah Krause -- The power of the dog / John Dominic Crossan -- Son(s) behaving badly: the prodigal in foreign hands / R.S. Sugirtharajah -- Postmodern Pentecost: a reading of Acts 2 / David Jobling -- Paul and the remedies of idolatry: reading Romans 1:18-24 with Romans 7 / Teresa J. Hornsby -- Inside jokes: community and authority in the Corinthian correspondence / Sandra Hack Polaski -- Paul's riposte to Fr. Rodrigues : conceptions of martyrdom in Philippians and Endo's Silence / Stephen Fowl -- Eyeing the Apocalypse / Catherine Keller.