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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| For Instructors | |
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| For Students | |
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| Summary of Chapters | |
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| An Issue of Distance | |
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| The Immediate Text | |
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| The Remote Text | |
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| The Middle Ground | |
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| Two Religions, One Set of Texts | |
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| Implications of the Designation Old Testament | |
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| The Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments | |
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| Interpreting the Old Testament | |
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| A Matter of Method | |
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| Interpretive Method | |
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| Source Criticism | |
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| Redaction Criticism | |
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| From a Hunch to a Hypothesis | |
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| Inductive Thinking | |
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| Deductive Thinking and Hypotheses | |
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| The Two-Source Hypothesis | |
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| What About Language? | |
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| Translation and Interpretation: An Example | |
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| Translation and the Problem of Language | |
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| Translation and the Jesus Tradition | |
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| Translation and the Church | |
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| Biblical Versions | |
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| To Hear and to See | |
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| Oral and Literary Culture | |
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| The Character of Written Texts | |
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| Be It History or Literature? | |
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| Historical Interpretation | |
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| Literary Interpretation | |
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| The Bible: A Book or a Library? | |
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| The Diversity of Literary Genres | |
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| The Diversity of Historical and Theological Circumstances | |
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| Like an Ever-flowing Stream | |
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| Form Criticism | |
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| Redaction Criticism, Recontextualization, and Intertextuality | |
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| The History of Traditions and the Formation of the Canon | |
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| Let's Just Read It Literally | |
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| The Surface Level of the Biblical Text | |
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| The Intent of the Biblical Author | |
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| The Accuracy of the Biblical Text | |
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| What Is Truth? Fact, Myth, and Moral Critique | |
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| Truth as Historical Correspondence | |
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| Truth by Definition and the Power of Myth | |
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| Biblical Truth and Moral Critique | |
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| This Canon Has One "N" | |
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| Canonization | |
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| Canon as Foundational Text | |
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| The Church and the University | |
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| The Three Legs of Interpretation | |
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| Constituency | |
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| Location | |
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| Function | |
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| A Question of Purity | |
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| The Rise of Judaism | |
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| "Matter" out of Place | |
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| Digging in the Text and in the Dirt | |
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| Textual Material | |
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| Archaeological Material | |
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| Biblical Scholars and Archaeologists in Conversation | |
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| The Bible and the Examined Life | |
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| Introductory Courses, Old and New | |
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| Teaching Goals | |
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| Index of Terms and Names | |
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| Index of Biblical References | |