Vol 8, No 2 (2012) The Marxism Issue

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• Editorial: The Marxism Issue — Roland Boer

ARTICLES

• Diagnosing an Allergic Reaction: The Avoidance of Marx in Pauline Scholarship — Neil Elliott
• Neo-Marxism, Language Ideology, and the New Testament — Giovanni B. Bazzana
• Towards Structural Marxism as a Hermeneutic of Early Christian Literature, Illustrated with Reference to Paul’s Spectacle Metaphor in 1 Corinthians 15:30-32 — Larry Welborn
• Bourgeois Right and the Limits of First Phase Communism in the Rhetoric of 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 — Joseph M. Bartlett
• MarK/X After Marxism: Fernando Belo and Contemporary Biblical Exegesis — Lance Byron Richey
• From Historical Criticism to Historical Materialism in the Study of Earliest Christology — Jonathan Bernier

BOOK REVIEWS

• Review of Scott S. Elliott, Reconfiguring Mark’s Jesus: Narrative Criticism after Poststructuralism. Bible in the Modern World, 41. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011. — Richard Walsh
• Review of Philippe Wajdenbaum, Argonauts of the Desert: Structural Analysis of the Hebrew Bible. Copenhagen International Seminar. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2011. — Peter D. Miscall
• Review of James D. Hester and J. David Hester, eds., Rhetorics in the New Millennium: Promise and Fulfilment. Studies in Antiquity and Christianity. New York: T & T Clark International, 2010. — Wade J. Berry
• Review of Anthony Paul Smith and Daniel Whistler, eds., After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. — Eric Repphun
• Review of Hanna Liss and Manfred Oeming, eds., Literary Construction of Identity in the Ancient World. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2010. — Coleman A. Baker
• Review of Michael N. Jagessar and Stephen Burns, Christian Worship: Postcolonial Perspectives. Cross Cultural Theologies. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2011. — Philip Michael Forness
• Review of Willa M. Johnson, The Holy Seed has been Defiled: The Interethnic Marriage Dilemma in Ezra 9-10. Hebrew Bible Monographs, 33. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011. — Donald P. Moffat
• Review, Jacob Taubes, Occidental Eschatology. Translated with a preface by David Ratmoko. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. — Roland Boer