Introduction: A Short Course in Postmodernism for Bible Readers
Epigraph: from Green Grass, Running Water / Thomas King
Pt. I. Rereading the Bible
1. Structural Analysis of Narrative: Apropos of Acts 10-11 / Roland Barthes
2. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Message in an Edenic Language / Umberto Eco
3. Reading the Bible / Julia Kristeva
4. Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar / Jacques Lacan
5. Dreaming in 1990 / Helene Cixous
6. Parable and Performative in the Gospels and in Modern Literature / J. Hillis Miller
7. Body Politic / Mieke Bal
Pt. II. Politics of Reading
8. J. L. Austin and the Book of Jonah / Terry Eagleton
9. Song of Mary (Luke 1:46-55) / Ernesto Cardenal
10. Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: Deliverance, Conquest, and Liberation Theology Today / Robert Allen Warrior
11. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation / Katie Geneva Cannon
12. Ecce Homo, Ain't (Ar'n't) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others: The Human in a Post-Humanist Landscape / Donna J. Haraway
13. Pedagogy for Postcolonial Feminists / Zakia Pathak
14. From The Book of Sodom / Paul Hallan
Pt. III. Conscience of the Bible
15. Meals Among Brothers: Theory of the Joker / Michel Serres
16. Interior Structure of Made Objects / Elaine Scarry
17. From Ethics and Community / Enrique Dussel
18. On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures / Emmanuel Levinas
19. Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know) / Jacques Derrida
20. "Draupadi" by Mahasweta Devi / Gayatri Spivak.
