Introduction

Derrida's Bible

Yvonne Sherwood

1-20

Between genealogy and virgin birth

origin and originality in Matthew

Lee Daneš

23-36

Of secretaries, secrets, and scrolls

Jeremiah 36 and the irritating word of God

Mark Brummitt

39-48

Postcards from the (canon's) edge

the Religion/Culture/Critiqueastoral epistles and Derrida's the post card

49-59

Erasing Amalek

remembering to forget with Derrida and biblical tradition

Brian M. Britt

61-77

The missing/mystical messiah

Melchizedek among the specters of genesis 14

Alastair G. Hunter

81-97

Jerusalem and memory

on a long parenthesis in Derrida's specters of Marx

David Jobling

99-115

Shibboleth and the ma(r)king of culture

Judges 12 and the monolingualism of the other

Frank M. Yamada

119-134

The book of Esther

the making and unmaking of Jewish identity

Dmitri M. Slivniak

135-148

Triangulating responsibility

how and why Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael offer and refuse the gift of death, and to/from whom

R. C. Heard

151-166

Preferring or not preferring

derrida on bartleby as Kierkegaard's Abraham

Oona Eisenstadt

167-179

Justice as gift

thinking grace with the help of Derrida

Theodore W. Jennings

181-198

Trembling in the dark

Derrida's mysterium tremendum and the gospel of Mark

Andrew P. Wilson

199-213

Death at the gate

who let him in?

Marie Turner

215-228

The end of the world

archive fever, Qohelet 12

Francis Landy

231-246

Decomposing Qohelet

Jennifer L. Koosed

247-259

And Sarah died

Yvonne Sherwood

261-292

Pardon me …

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

295-299

Beliebigkeit

John Barton

301-303