Vol 4, No 1 (2008) Identity Production

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• Editorial: Us Versus Them: On Biblical (Studies) Identity Production — Julie Kelso

ARTICLES

• The Violence of Idolatry — Regina Schwartz
• Simulating Christ: Luke and John, and the Canonical Control of Meaning — George Aichele
• ‘Who are you calling “stupid”’? Ethnocentric Humour and Identity Construct in the Colonial Discourse of Judges 3:12-30 — Johnny Miles
• New Covenant, New Identity: A Social-Scientific Reading of Jeremiah 31:31-34 — J. Coleman Baker
• The Crippled Ummah: Toward Redefining Golah in Ezra-Nehemiah — Jeremiah Cataldo

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Ehud Ben Zvi (ed.), Utopia and Dystopia in Prophetic Literature — Roland Boer
• Review of Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, John Pawlikowski, Timothy J. Sandoval (eds.), Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible — Michael Carden
• Review of R. S. Sugirtharajah (ed.), Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World (3rd edn) — Bridget Culpepper
• Review of Eric S. Christianson, Ecclesiastes Through the Centuries — R. Christopher Heard
• Review of Mark McEntire and Joel Emerson, Raising Cain, Fleeing Egypt and Fighting Philistines: The Old Testament in Popular Music — Søren Holst
• Review of Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller (eds.), Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline — Mark Manolopoulos
• Review of Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism — Judith McKinlay
• Review of Wesley J. Bergen and Armin Siedlecki (eds.), Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honour of David Jobling — Peter D. Miscall
• Review of Graham S. Ogden, Qoheleth (2nd edn) — Peter D. Miscall
• Review of Ehud Ben Zvi, History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles — Christine Mitchell
• Review of Marcel Danesi, The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice — Mark Sneed
• Review of Andrew P. Wilson, Transfigured: A Derridean Rereading of the Markan Transfiguration (New York: T&T Clark, 2007) — Mark Sneed
• Review of Elaine M. Wainwright, Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity — Kristi Upson-Saia
• Review of Marvin A. Sweeney, Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature — Thomas Wagner
• Review of James G. Crossley, Why Christianity Happened: A Sociohistorical Account of Christian Origins (26–50 CE) — Richard Walsh