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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Wrestling the Word | |
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Diverse Experiences and Goals of Reading | |
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Rereading the Story of Jael and Sisera | |
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What's at Stake in Different Ways of Reading | |
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How and Why Do We Read? | |
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Every Interpretation Is Shaped by Context | |
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Arguing over the Author and History | |
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Prior Assumptions and Intuitions | |
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The Role of Tradition | |
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Historical Inquiry | |
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Literary Criticism | |
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Reconfiguring Our Notions of History, Text, and Author | |
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Julia Kristeva: Intertextuality and Foreignness | |
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Emmanuel L�vinas: The Face of the Other and the Interruption of Discourse | |
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One Truth or Many Voices? Literary Sources and the Integrity of the Text | |
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The Yahwist Doesn't Have Many Friends on Facebook | |
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Why Source Criticism? | |
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Weaknesses of the Method | |
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Around and Around We Go | |
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The Elohist's Last Dance | |
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Thinking Anew about Multiple Sources | |
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Honoring Diverse Witnesses | |
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Gratitude for Fruitful Tensions | |
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The Ethics of Attending to Different Voices | |
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Walter Brueggemann: Testimony and Countertestimony | |
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Mikhail Bakhtin: Dialogical Reading | |
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Foundational Narratives, History, and Voices from the Margins | |
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Bias in Representation | |
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The Mystery of Biblical History | |
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Influences from Other Ancient Near Eastern Cultures | |
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The Potential of Incarnational Theology | |
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Diverse Cultural Expressions as Divine Gift | |
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Debates about the Historicity of Exodus and Conquest Traditions | |
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Dimensions of Truth | |
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Redeemed for Obedience | |
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Conflicting Assessments of David | |
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History with Jael and Sisera | |
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Insiders and Outsiders: Boundaries and the Theological Imagination | |
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Acknowledging Our Situatedness | |
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Liberation and Politics | |
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Troubling Scripture Texts | |
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Feminist and Womanist Readings | |
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African and African American Biblical Hermeneutics | |
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Queer Readings | |
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Postcolonial Criticism | |
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Jael and Sisera: Transgendered and Colonized | |
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Wrestling the Word | |
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Collaborative Diaspora Theology | |
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Constructing and Reconstructing Your Own Reading Strategies | |
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Bibliography | |
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Scripture Index | |
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Subject Index | |