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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Latino/a Itineraries | |
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Reading around the Edges | |
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Mapping This Book | |
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Reading Strategies | |
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Good Fences and Good Neighbors? Biblical Scholars and Theologians | |
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Business as Usual? | |
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At the Galilean Border: Of Fences and Neighbors | |
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Summing Up | |
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The Bible and Liberation: Between the Preferential-Option for the Poor and the Hermeneutical Privilege of the Poor | |
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Gustavo Guti�rrez Comes to Queens | |
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Giving Voice to the Preferential Option | |
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Reading Privileges | |
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Reading and Representing | |
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Too Much Reading? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Latino/a Biblical Studies as Public Theology and the Case of U.S. Immigration Reform | |
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Reading the Bible in Public | |
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The Bible and the Border | |
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Jesus Behaving Badly? Rereading Mark 7:24-30 with Sharon Ringe | |
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Mark's Migrant Jesus | |
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Conclusions: Reading en Voz Alta | |
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Looking To The Texts | |
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Abram and Sarai Cross the Border: A Reading of Genesis 12:10-20 | |
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Biblical Imperatives and the World in Front of the Text | |
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People on the Move in the Hebrew Bible | |
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Abram and Sarai Cross the Border Genesis 12:10-20 | |
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Conclusion | |
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Symbolism on the Street: Reading Prophecy as Performance in Ezekiel 12:1-16 | |
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Reading Ezekiel from this Hyphenated Place | |
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Extraordinary Texts and Ordinary Readers | |
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Street Theater, Performance, and Script | |
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Rewriting the Script: Diachronicity, Coherence, and Consistency | |
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Finale: Performance and Permanence | |
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An Exile's Baggage: A Postcolonial Reading of Ezekiel | |
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Echoes of Exile | |
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What Is Postcolonial Hermeneutics and Why Does It Matter Anyway? | |
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Between Assimilation and Resistance: A Postcolonial Approach to Ezekiel 20 | |
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Conclusion | |
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"They Could Not Speak the Language of Judah": Rereading Nehemiah 13 between Brooklyn and Jerusalem | |
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Reading Nehemiah in Brooklyn | |
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Rereading Nehemiah: Walls Built of Words | |
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Language and the Politics of Ethnic Identity | |
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The View from Northern Boulevard: Reading Matthew's Parable of the Day Laborers Conventional Readings | |
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Resisting Conventional Readings | |
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Another Look at the Parable | |
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Seeing the Face of Christ in the Immigrant Laborer? | |
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The Bible and the Exegesis of Empire: Reading Christopher Columbus's Ellibro de las profecias | |
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Beginning with the Apocalypse | |
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Columbus and His Bible | |
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Columbus as Exegete of Empire | |
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Provisional Conclusions | |
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Epilogue: Reading the New Normal | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |