Social Justice and the Hebrew Bible, Volume Two

PART 1: The Origins of Ancient Israel
-Early Israel as an Anti-Imperial Community
-The Origins of Israel as a Textual
-Models for Envisioning Early Israel
-Triumphalist versus Anti-Triumphalist Versions of Early Israel: A Response to Articles by Lemche and Dever
-Historical Description versus Historical Representation and Symbol
-The Interplay of Religion and Ethnicity in Ancient Israel
-Proto-Globalization and Proto-Secularization in Ancient Israel
-Revisiting the Tribes of Yahweh after Twenty-five Years.

PART 2: The Politics of Ancient Israel
-Religion and Politics: Early Israel and Judaism
-The Puzzling Politics of Ancient Israel
-The Role of Biblical Politics in Contextual Theologies

PART 3: Review and Reflections
-Forward to Jeremy Young, The Violence of God and the War on Terror
-Reflections on R. S. Sugirtharajah's Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Post colonialism. Contesting the Interpretations and The Bible and the Third Way: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters
-Review of Stephen L. Cook, The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism
-Review of Marty E. Stevens, Temples, Tithes, and Taxes: The Temple and the Economic Life of Ancient Israel
-Review of Philip R. Davies, The Origins of Biblical Israel
-Panel Presentation on Joshua A. Berman, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought.