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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 | |