PART 1: EXAMINING TEXTS

1. Social Drama in the Psalms of Individual Lament

2. Kingship in the Book of Psalms

3. Abusing the Bible: The Case of Deuteronomy

4. Do not Fear What They Fear: A Post-9/11 Reflection (Isaiah 8:11-15)

5. The Expropriated and the Expropriators in Nehemiah

6. How Do Extrabiblical Sociopolitical Data Illuminate Obscure Biblical Texts? The Case of Ecclesiastes 5:8-9 [Heb. 5:7-8]

7. On the Alleged Wisdom of Kings: An Application of Adorno's Immanent Criticism to Ecclesiastes

PART 2: ENGAGING PRACTICES

8. Framing Biblical Interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: A Student Self Inventory on Biblical Hermeneutics

9. Theological Education as a Theory-Praxis Loop: Situating the Book of Joshua in a Cultural, Social Ethical, and Theological Matrix

10. The Bible as Nurturer of Passive and Active Worldviews

11. Biblical Scholarship in Public Discourse

12. On Framing Elections: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

13. Values and Economic Structures