Table of Contents

On biblical criticism, Regina Schwartz; dealing with women - daughters in the book of judges, Mieke Bal; on prophetic stammering, Herbert Marks; Joseph's bones and the resurrection of the text, Regina Schwartz; space and time in biblical narrative, Meir Sternberg; Sodom as Nexus - the web of design in biblical narrative, Robert Alter; the keeping of Nahor - the etiology of biblical election, James Norjrnberg; the hermeneutics of Midrash, Gerald L.Bruns; the song of songs - lock or key?, Daniel Boyarin; J.L.Austin and the book of Jonah, Terry Eagleton; interpretative narrative, Paul Ricoeur; the gospel in Greco-Roman culture, Mary Ann Tolbert; Paul and Marxism, Sheila Briggs.