Vol 5, No 3 (2009) Bible and Critical Theory

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• Editorial — Julie Kelso

ARTICLES

• Philosophia Ancilla Theologiae: Allegory and Ascension in Philo’s On Mating with the Preliminary Studies (De congressu quaerendae eruditionis gratia) — Hent De Vries
• Only Agamben Can Save Us? Against the Messianic Turn Recently Adopted in Critical Theory — Matthew Sharpe
• ‘What is Inscribed in the Book’: The Book Motif as a Productive Force in the Apocalypses of Daniel — James Leveque
• Meeting Achsah on Achsah’s Land — Judith McKinlay
• ‘Would You Condemn Me That You May Be Justified?’ Job as Differend — Deane Galbraith

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Mieke Bal, Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past — Roland Boer
• Review of Adrian Thatcher, The Savage Text: The Use and Abuse of the Bible — Michael Carden
• Review of Yung Suk Kim, Christ’s Body in Corinth: The Politics of a Metaphor — Daniel L. Christiansen
• Review of Luke Gärtner-Brereton, The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: The Determinate Function of Narrative ‘Space’ within the Biblical Hebrew Aesthetic — Deane Galbraith
• Review of Norman Whybray, Job — Peter D. Miscall
• Review of Ellen F. Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible — Christine Mitchell
• Review of Jeremy M. Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity — Ellen Muehlberger
• Review of Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Our Mother Saint Paul — V. Henry T. Nguyen
• Review of David A. Bernat and Jonathan Klawans, eds., Religion and Violence: The Biblical Heritage — Anthony G. Rees
• Review of David Sánchez, From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths — Eric Repphun
• Review of L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today — Gillian Townsley
• Review of Musa Wenkosi Dube, The HIV and AIDS Bible: Selected Essays — Michael Carden