List of Contributors.Acknowledgements.Introduction.Part I: Theoretical Practices.Introduction: Theoretical Practices. (R. S. Sugirtharajah).
1. Charting the Aftermath: A Review of Postcolonial Criticism. (R. S. Sugirtharajah).2. Biblical Criticism and Postcolonial Studies: Toward a Postcolonial Optic. (Fernando F.
Segovia).3. Making the Connections: Postcolonial Studies and Feminist Biblical Interpretation. (Kwok Pui-lan).Part II: Empires Old and New.Introduction: Empires Old and New.4. Renewal Movements and Resistance to Empire in Ancient Judea.
(Richard Horsley).5. Postcolonialism and Imperial Motives for Canonization. (Jon L Berquist).6. Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality. (Werner H Kelber).7.
Desiring War: Apocalypse, Commodity Fetish, and the End of History. (Erin Runions).Part III: Empire and Exegesis.Introduction.8. The Implications of the Text of Esther for African Women's Struggle for Liberation in South Africa. (Itumeleng J. Mosala).
9. Rahab says Hello to Judith: A Decolonizing Feminist Reading. (Musa Dube).10. The Sign of Orpah: Reading Ruth through Native Eyes. (Laura Donaldson).11. On Naming the Subject: Postcolonial Reading of Daniel 1.
(Philip Chia).12. Decolonizing Yahweh: A Postcolonial Reading of 2 Kings 24-25. (Kari Latvus).13. Mark and Empire: "Zealot" and "Postcolonial Readings". (Stephen D. Moore).
14. Tyranny, Boundary and Might: Colonial Mimicry in Mark's Gospel. (Tat-siong Benny Liew).15. Mori "Jews" and Resistant Reading of John 5.10-47. (Mary Huie-Jolly).16.
God at the Crossroads: A Postcolonial Reading of Sophia. (Mayra Rivera).Part IV: Postcolonial Concerns.Introduction.17. How Local Divine Powers were Suppressed: A Case of Mwari of Shona. Dora R. Mbuwayesnago.
18. Cutchery Tamil versus Pure Tamil: Contesting Language use in the Translated Bible in early Nineteenth-Century Protestant Tamil Community. (Hephzibah Israel).19. Canonization and Marginalization. Mary of Magdala. Karen L. King.
20. Exodus toward Egypt: Filipino Americans' Struggle to Realize the Promised Land in America. Eleazar S. Fernandez.Index of Biblical References.Index of Names and Subjects.