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Editor's Foreword | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Preface | |
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Biblical Theology: On Matters of Methodology | |
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The Emergence of Diasporic Theology | |
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Questioning Nationalism in Cultural and Postcolonialist Studies | |
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On a Theology of Exile | |
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Violence and Exegesis: The History of Exile | |
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The Shadows of Empire: The Exegesis of Violence as Theological Context | |
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The Problem of Assessing the Importance of the Exile in Biblical Studies | |
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Persian Authorization of the Pentateuch? | |
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Resistance in the Persian Period | |
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The Culture of Permission and the Royal Correspondence of Ezra 1-7 | |
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Summary: Ezra-Nehemiah, Religious Resistance, and Persian Authorization? | |
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The Myth of the Empty Land: Doubts about the Exile | |
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The Shadow of Empire: A Survey of Recent Literature | |
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A Theology of Victims of Exile | |
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The Status and Treatment of the Exiled Community | |
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Listening to Cries from Babylon: On the Exegesis of Suffering in Ezekiel and Lamentations | |
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Ezekiel, Lamentations, and Refugee Studies | |
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A Survey of Refugee and Disaster Studies in Preparation for Reading Ezekiel and Lamentations | |
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Ezekiel on the Couch? | |
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Trauma Studies and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Ezekiel the Refugee | |
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The Sign-Actions of Ezekiel: Reading Ezekiel with Lamentations | |
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The Language of Lament: Does Literary Stereotype Mean Historical Nonexistence? | |
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Preliminary Conclusions | |
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Shame and Transformation: On Prayer and History in the Diaspora | |
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A Sociology of Deuteronomistic History? | |
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Penitential Prayer in the Postexilic Period | |
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A Social Function of Shame? | |
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Israelite Mission and Human Transformation | |
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The Universalism of Late Isaiah Texts | |
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Universalism in Jonah | |
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"Purity" as Nonconformity: Communal Solidarity as Diaspora Ethics | |
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The Exile and Theologies of "Community" | |
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Who Is "We"? Some Observations on the Biblical Vocabulary of Community | |
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Issues of Community Formation after the Exile | |
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The Priestly Theology of Policing the Boundaries: Purity and Social Solidarity | |
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Purity and Nonconformity: Ezra as an Amish Elder | |
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The Wisdom Warrior: Reading Wisdom and Daniel as Diasporic Ethics | |
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On Tricksters and Wise Men | |
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Reading Wisdom in Diaspora and Occupied Palestine | |
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Ecclesiastes: Dark Humor in Occupied Palestine? | |
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Rereading Proverbs from Below | |
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The Wisdom Warrior: Diasporic Cleverness over Imperial Brute Strength | |
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The Wisdom Warrior: An Ideal Type in Wisdom Literature | |
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Daniel as the Wise Warrior | |
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"And Daniel Laughed..." - Diasporic Nonviolence: Laughing at the State | |
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Toward a Diasporic Christian Theology: The Theology of Tobit and Daniel Revisited | |
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The Postcolonialist Mandate of the Church in Exile | |
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Social Elements of a Christian Diasporic Theology | |
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Index of Biblical Passages | |