Introduction: The Bible in the West: A Peoples’ History? by Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia)
PART I: Biblical Possessions
- Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine by Donald Harman Akenson (Queen’s University)
- Protestant Restorationism and the Ortelian Mapping of Palestine (with an Afterword on Islam) by Nabil I. Matar (University of Minnesota)
- Beyond a Shared Inheritance: American Jews Reclaim the Hebrew Bible by Laura S. Levitt (Temple University, Philadelphia)
- Recalling the Nation’s Terrain: Narrative, Territory and Canon (Commentary on Part One) by Robert A. Daum (University of British Columbia)
PART II: Confounding Narratives
- Dominion from Sea to Sea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Constantine the Great and the Exegesis of Empire by Harry O. Maier (Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia)
- Unending Sway: The Ideology of Empire in Early Christian Latin Thought by Karla Pollmann (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
- ‘The Ends of the Earth’: The Bible, Bibles and the Other in Early Medieval Europe by Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
- Promised Lands, Premised Texts (Commentary on Part Two) by Mark Vessey
PART III: Colonial and Postcolonial Readings, Premodern Ironies
- The Amerindian in Divine History: The Limits of Biblical Authority in the Jesuit Mission to New France, 1632-1649 by Peter A. Goddard (University of Guelph)
- Joshua in America: On Cowboys, Canaanites and Indians by Laura E. Donaldson (Cornell University)
- Premodern Ironies: First Nations and Chosen Peoples by Jace Weaver (University of Georgia)
- Biblical Narrative and the (De)stabilization of the Colonial Subject (Commentary on Part Three) by Harry O. Maier
Epilogue. ‘Paradise Highway’: Of Global Cities and Postcolonial Reading Practices by Sharon V. Betcher (Vancouver School of Theology, British Columbia)