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Introduction: Intervening on the postcolonial / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Reading race reading Rahab / Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, Mai-Anh Le Tran -- Canaanite women and Israelite women in Deuteronomy / Dora R. Mbuwayesango -- In-location as textual trans-version: a study in John 4.1-42 / Sathianathan Clarke, S.H. Ringe -- Metonymies of empire: sexual humiliation and gender masquerade in the book of Revelation / Stephen D. Moore -- Challenging the empire: the conscience of the prophet and prophetic dissent from a postcolonial perspective / Hamchand Gossai -- Resistance versus accomodation: what do we do with Romans 13? / Roland Boer -- Slave women and freedom / E. Schüssler Fiorenza -- Diaspora, Babel, Pentecost, and the strangers in our midst: birthing a church of radical hospitality / Eleazar S. Fernandez -- Scriptures for strangers: the making of an African-ized Bible / Vincent L. Wimbush -- On walking through the cemetery / J. Jayakiran Sebastian -- 'Come over and help us' / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Tracing Sugirtharajah's voice from the margin / Fernado F. Segovia -- Teaching Sugirtharajah / D.L. Smith-Christopher -- What difference does postcolonial criticism make? / Gerald O. West -- Postcolonial theory as academic double agent? / Jeremy Punt -- One step beyond or one step too far? / Ralph Broadbent -- Can we read religious texts interreligiously? / Peter C. Phan -- Land of the Kauri and the long white cloud: beginning to read Matthew 1-2 ecologically / Elaime M. Wainwright -- Elemental bonds: scene for an earthly postcolonial theology / Mayra Rivera.