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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 | |