Introduction / Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Edgar V. McKnight -- Redaction criticism : has the Hauptstrasse become a Sackgasse? / John R. Donahue, SJ -- The major importance of the minor characters in Mark / Elizabeth Struthers Malbon -- 'Watch how you listen' (Lk. 8.18) : Jesus and the rhetoric of perception in Luke-Acts / John A. Darr -- Reading Tabitha : a feminist reception history / Janice Capel Anderson -- The Gospel of Mark as an oral-aural event : implications for interpretation / Joanna Dewey -- Socio-rhetorical criticism : Mary, Elizabeth and the Magnificat as a test case / Vernon K. Robbins -- 'Since God is one' : rhetoric as theology and history in Paul's Romans / Antoinette Clark Wire -- Allegories of Hagar : reading Galatians 4.21-31 with postmodern feminist eyes / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Peering into the abyss : a postmodern reading of the biblical bottomless pit / Tina Pippin --

How Jesus' risen body became a cadaver / Stephen D. Moore -- The ethics of reading deconstructively, or speaking face-to-face : the Samaritan woman meets Derrida at the well / Gary A. Phillips -- A sheep in wolf's clothing : an option in contemporary New Testament hermeneutics / Edgar V. McKnight -- Matthew's dark light and the human condition / Dan O. Via -- What is it about? : reference in New Testament literary criticism / William A. Beardslee.