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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: The Ethos of Creation | |
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| Culture and Ecology in Recent Biblical Scholarship | |
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| Cosmos and Ethos | |
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| From Antiquity to Modern Science: A Cosmopolitical Sampling | |
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| Rejoining What Has Been Rent Asunder | |
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| The Role of Moral Imagination in Creation | |
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| A Theological Advance: Breaking an Impasse | |
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| The Crisis of Culture | |
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| Modus Operandi | |
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| It Was Good, It Was Hallowed: Integrity and Differentiation in the Cosmic Sanctuary | |
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| An Ethos of Order | |
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| Structure and Sequence | |
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| Role and Relationship: The Stewardship of Creation | |
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| Ethos and Cosmos | |
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| Integrity down for the Count | |
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| Will the Real Chaos Please Rise Up? | |
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| Covenant and Creation from Genesis to Sinai | |
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| Covenant, Creation, and Liberation | |
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| Sinai and Sanctification | |
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| Tabernacle, Testimony, and Creation | |
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| Cult and Culture, Holiness and Goodness | |
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| Land and Liminality | |
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| Of Sin and Sanctity, Creation and Command | |
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| Israel's Presence in the Land | |
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| The Distinction of Holiness | |
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| Living in Integrity | |
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| An Ethos of Restoration: Identity and Integration | |
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| Distinction without Exclusion | |
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| Integrity without Inclusion | |
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| "From the Dust of the Ground," from "Bone of My Bones": The Ethos of the Garden Mythos in Genesis 2:4b-3:24 | |
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| In the Garden | |
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| Cultivating the Garden Community | |
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| Of God, Ground, and Gardening | |
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| Expulsion from the Garden | |
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| The Desiccation of Community | |
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| Encroachment and Expulsion | |
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| The Geo-Ethical Landscape | |
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| Knowledge and Wisdom | |
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| The Breakdown of Community | |
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| Outside the Garden | |
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| The Ontology of Violence | |
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| The Descent of Culture | |
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| Noah: Moral Man in Immoral Society | |
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| Man of the Soil | |
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| Eden's Access Denied | |
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| Culture Revisited and Relativized | |
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| The Garden and the City | |
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| The Garden and the Ger | |
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| Ethos and Kinship | |
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| Exodus and Ethos | |
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| Between Chaos and Ethos | |
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| Eden Recultivated | |
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| The Garden and the Kingdom: The Yahwist's Socioliterary Setting | |
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| The Paradigm of Paradise: Ethos and Ethics | |
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| "I Am about to Do a New Thing": Yahweh's Victory Garden in Second Isaiah | |
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| Creation's Germination | |
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| The Fruits of Creation and Community | |
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| Withering and Flourishing: Isaiah 44:1-5 | |
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| The Taxonomy of Community: Isaiah 41:17-20 | |
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| The Roots of Royal Gardening | |
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| The Anti-Garden: Idol Manufacture in Isaiah 44:9-20 | |
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| In the Garden: Righteousness and Justice | |
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| The Servant and the Shepherd | |
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| The Contours of the Cultivated Community | |
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| "Plotting the Resurrection": The Old and the New | |
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| "Rejoicing in His Inhabited World": Wisdom's Playhouse in Proverbs | |
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| Wisdom's Place and Role in Creation | |
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| The Character of Creation | |
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| Wisdom in Creation: Eyewitness and Player | |
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| Creation in Context | |
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| Chaos in Context | |
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| Chaos of Violence | |
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| Chaos of Strangeness | |
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| Eros and Ethos | |
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| Delight and Discipline | |
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| Joy and the Art of Community Formation | |
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| The Play of Discipline | |
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| The Play of Discourse | |
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| The Socioliterary Context: Conflict and Conciliation | |
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| Wisdom at Home: The Ethos of Sophia | |
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| "Fearful" Play | |
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| Integrative Play | |
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| Wisdom's Encompassing Household | |
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| "Ask the Animals and They Will Teach You": Job's Carnival of Animals | |
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| The Topography of Patriarchy: The Prologue | |
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| The Dawn of the Dead: Job's First Discourse | |
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| In the Cauldron of Contention | |
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| Casting the First Stone | |
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| Job the Hunted | |
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| In the Violent Pursuit of Wisdom | |
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| Of Honor, Onagers, and Orphans | |
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| The Oath of Virtue | |
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| Educating Job | |
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| The Cosmic Community | |
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| "Ask the Animals and They Will Teach You" | |
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| Representations of the King's Enemies | |
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| Royal Self-Representations | |
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| Hunting Expeditions | |
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| Job in No-Man's-Land | |
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| Job's Commencement: Dignity without Dominion | |
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| From Chaos to Community | |
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| Conclusion: Cosmos and Ethos | |
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| The Cosmic Sanctuary | |
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| The Garden Community | |
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| The Temple Garden | |
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| Wisdom's Cosmic Domicile | |
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| Job's Wild and Wondrous Wasteland | |
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| Creation and Community in Christ | |
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| Toward an Ecology of Community | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Authors and Subjects | |
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| Index of Scripture References | |