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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Secularists and the Not Godless World | |
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| Nonbelievers, the Bible, and Religion | |
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| The Current Crisis of Secular Intellectual Culture | |
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| "Secularism" Redefined | |
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| Conclusion: The Challenge for Secular Intellectuals | |
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| The Composition of the Hebrew Bible | |
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| "Who Wrote the Bible?": Ancient Responses | |
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| Creativity versus Stenography | |
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| Texts Just Happen!: The Biblical Conception of the Origin of Texts | |
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| A Flawed Equation: Torah = The First Five Books = The Writings of Moses | |
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| Conclusion: The Hebrew Bible as an Unself-Conscious Artifact | |
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| "Who Wrote the Bible?": Modern Responses | |
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| The Documentary Hypothesis and the Birth of Modernist Exegesis | |
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| More Moderns: Tradition History, Inner-Biblical Exegesis, and the Haggadic Hypothesis | |
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| Conclusion: Assemblage, Not Authorship | |
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| A Secular Answer to "Who Wrote the Bible?" | |
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| How Many Wrote the Hebrew Bible? | |
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| The Bible's Meanings Never Meant | |
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| Possibilities of Meaning | |
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| Conclusion: Secular Hermeneutics - A Parasitic Enterprise | |
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| The Interpreters of the Hebrew Bible | |
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| Why Is There So Much Biblical Interpretation? | |
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| Power and the Bible's Appeal | |
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| The Interpretive Injunction | |
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| Interpretive Necessity and the Quest for the Better Model | |
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| The Bible's Divine Proximity ("Prisoners of Hope") | |
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| Conclusion: "I Love You. You're Perfect. Now Change!" | |
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| Introducing Biblical Scholars and Secular Hermeneutics | |
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| The Ethos of the Exegete | |
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| Hermeneutics and Sociology: The Postmodern Contestation of Modernist Exegesis | |
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| Conclusion: Politics and Scholarship | |
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| Politics and Scripture | |
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| On Jewish Intermarriage: The Bible Is Open to Interpretation | |
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| Against Intermarriage: The Canaanite Nations | |
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| Ezra and Nehemiah | |
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| Preferring Voluptuousness to God: Intermarriage in Hebrew Scriptures | |
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| The Bible Betrayed? | |
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| Conclusion: Scripture as Simulacrum | |
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| Same-Sex Eroticism and Jerry Falwell | |
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| "Lying Downs of a Woman": Hebrew Scripture's Ambiguous Testimony on Homoeroticism | |
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| The New Testament Evidence | |
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| Scholars, Demagogues, Secularists, and Public Discussions of Homosexuality | |
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| Conclusion: "Now It Can Be Exegeted!" | |
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| The Secular Qur'an? | |
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| The Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an: A Comparison of Textual Consciousness | |
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| Interpretive Quiet Zones and Hotspots | |
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| Modern Biblical Scholarship: Heroism and Latent Secularizing Thrust | |
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| Secularizing the Qur'an: The Triple Obstacles | |
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| Conclusion: The New Mu'tazila | |
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| Conclusion: Beyond Church and State: New Directions for Secularism | |
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| The Secular Tyranny Myth | |
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| Secular Works: New Projects for Secular Intellectuals | |
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| Done?: The Inescapability of Religion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Biblical Citations | |
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| Index of Qur'anic Citations | |
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| Index of Rabbinic, Early, Jewish, and Patristic Citations | |
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| Index | |