The Postmodern Bible Reader

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: A Short Course in Postmodernism for Bible Readers.

Epigraph: "Green Grass, Running Water" by Thomas King.

Part I: Rereading the Bible:.

Introduction.

1. The Structural Analysis of Narrative: Apropos of Acts 10-11: Roland Barthes.

2. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages 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: HÚlÞne Cixous.

6. Parable and Performative in the Gospels and in Modern Literature: J. Hillis Miller.

7. Body Politic: Mieke Bal.

Part II: The Politics of Reading:.

Introduction.

8. J. L. Austin and the Book of Jonah: Terry Eagleton.

9. The Song of Mark (Luke 1:46-55): Ernesto Cardenal.

10. A Native American Perspective: Canaanites, Cowboys, and Indians: 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 Haraway.

13. A Pedagogy for Post-Colonial Feminists: Zakia Pathak.

14. From The Book of Sodom: Paul Hallam.

Part III: The conscience of the Bible:.

Introduction.

15. Meals Among Brothers: Theory of the Joker: Michel Serres.

16. The 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 Chakravorty Spivak.

Index.