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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Part I -- Poetics -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 2 -- Contemporary Readings of the Qur'an: Cruel/Compassionate? -- Chapter 3 -- If the Words Be Well Understood: Canticles and the Problematic of Spiritual Metaphor -- Chapter 4 -- Qur'an, Canon, and Literature -- Chapter 5 -- Sign, Analogy, and the Via Negativa: Approaching the Transcendent God of the Qur'an -- Chapter 6 -- Force Dynamics and the Qur'226;n: An Essay in Cognitive Qur'226;nic Poetics -- Chapter 7 -- The Function of Tropic Structures in the Fourth Gospel -- Chapter 8 -- Some Aspects of Narration in the Qur'an -- Chapter 9 -- Death and the Double: Gothic Aesthetics in Genesis 4.18211;16 -- Chapter 10 -- The Baroque Prophets: An Encounter between the Hebrew Prophets and John Donne -- Part II -- Negotiating Boundaries: Crossings and Defining the Human and the Divine -- Chapter 11- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 12 -- Jesus Simulacrum, or the Gospels vs. "The Gospel" -- Chapter 13 -- Human -- Chapter 14 -- In Possession of the Night: Lilith as Goddess, Demon, Vampire -- Chapter 15 -- Images of Abraham and G-D in a Jewish Reading of Genesis -- Part III -- Topographies: Landscape and Body -- Chapter 16 -- Introduction to Part III -- Chapter 17 -- Timeless Texts and Modern Morals: Challenges in Islamic Sexual Ethics -- Chapter 18 -- Mary and the Marquise: Reading the Annunciation in the Romantic Rape Tradition -- Chapter 19 -- The Mesopotamian Flood Epic in the Earliest Texts, the Bible, and the Qur'an -- Chapter 20 -- Call It Magic Surgery: Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/ Circumcision and Midrash -- Chapter 21 -- The Trajectory of Hunger: Appropriation and Prophecy in the Book of Ruth -- Part IV -- Subjectivity -- Chapter 22 -- Introduction to Part IV -- Chapter 23 -- The Shaman Meets the Poet: Mar237;a Sabina and the Curative Powers of Language -- Chapter 24 -- From Haggadic Exegesis to Myth: Popular Stories of the Prophets in Islam -- Chapter 25 -- The Right to Write: Power, Irony, and Identity in the Book of Esther -- Chapter 26 -- The Book of Job and Shakespearean Subjectivity -- Chapter 27 -- Sacred Tropes: The Laugh of Abraham and the Birth of Subjectivity -- Chapter 28 -- Crossing Outlaws: The Life and Times of Jesse James and Jesus of Nazareth -- Part V -- Gift and Sacrifice -- Chapter 29 -- Introduction to Part V -- Chapter 30 -- Mary in the Qur'an: Rereading Subversive Births -- Chapter 31 -- Sarah's Gift: Gender, Agency, and the Sacred -- Chapter 32 -- What Happens When Achsah Gets Off Her Ass? Queer Reading and Judges 1:118211;15 -- Chapter 33 -- Isaac as the Lamb of God: A Hermeneutic Crux in the Re-reading of Jewish Texts -- Part VI -- Imperialism, Revolution, and Community -- Chapter 34 -- Introduction to Part VI -- Chapter 35 -- African Rewritings of the Jewish and Islamic Solomonic Tradition: The Triumph of the Queen of Sheba in the Ethiopian Fourteenth-Century Text K. Bra Nagast -- Chapter 36 -- Noah's Nakedness: Islam, Race, and the Fantasy of the Christian West -- Chapter 37 -- Supplying the Missing Body of Onesimus: Readings of Paul's Letter to Philemon -- Chapter 38 -- Revelation and Revolution: Law, Justice, and Politics in the Hebrew Bible -- Chapter 39 -- Antonin Scalia v. Jonathan Edwards: Romans 13 and the American Theology of State -- Index of Passages from Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an -- Subject Index
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