Introduction / Jason P. Rosenblatt and Joseph C. Sitterson, Jr.
Biblical imperatives and literary play / Robert Alter
Double cave, double talk : the indirections of biblical dialogue / Meir Sternberg
Princely characters / James C. Nohrnberg
Understanding the bread : disruption and aggregation, secrecy and revelation in Mark's gospel / John Drury
Literary exegesis of biblical narrative : between poetics and hermeneutics / Adele Berlin
The right chorale : from the poetics to the hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible / Bernard M. Levinson
The integrity of biblical pluralism / James A. Sanders
Genesis 22 : the sacrifice of Sarah / Phyllis Trible
The histories of David : biblical scholarship and biblical stories / Regina M. Schwartz
Esther passes : chiasm, lex talio, and money in the book of Esther / William T. McBride.
