Introduction | p. 1 |
Biblical Insight into the Present Moment | |
Church Bible Studies, Ancient and Modern Empires, and the Gospel according to John | p. 13 |
Hastening the Day when the Earth Will Burn: Global Warming, 2 Peter, and the Book of Revelation | p. 25 |
Biblical Hermeneutics in a Secular Age: Reflections from South Africa Twenty Years after the Kairos Document | p. 39 |
Echoes of Paul in the Speeches of George W. Bush | p. 55 |
American Babylon: Days in the Life of an African-American Idea | p. 67 |
Do Not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection on Isaiah 8:11-18 | p. 83 |
Questioning the Ekklesia and the Academy | |
Hermeneutics in the American Empire: Toward an Anti-Imperialist Theology | p. 89 |
Contending with the Bible: Biblical Interpretation as a Site of Struggle in South Africa | p. 101 |
The Blessings of Hegemony: Poverty, Paul's Assemblies, and the Class Interests of the Professoriate | p. 117 |
"Nobody Tasted Blood in It": Public Intellectuals Interrogating Myths of Innocence in Biblical Studies | p. 129 |
Jesus' Subversive Victory Shouts in Matthew 27: Toward an Empowering Theology of the Cross | p. 143 |
Prospects for Politically Engaged Biblical Studies | |
Reading Scripture in the Context of Empire | p. 157 |
Coded Resistance: A Proposed Rereading of Romans 13:1-7 | p. 173 |
A Famine of the Word: A Stringfellowian Reflection on the American Church Today | p. 185 |
Communities Reading the Bible and Public Vision | p. 197 |
Notes | p. 205 |
Index | p. 265 |
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