Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction: Gatecrashing Thanksgiving: Australian Biblical Studies in the Global Calculus -- Marx, Postcolonialism, and the Bible -- The Decree of the Watchers, or, Other Globalizations -- Explorer Hermeneutics, or Fat Damper and Sweetened Tea -- Home Is Always Elsewhere: Exodus, Exile, and the Howling Wilderness Waste -- Green Ants and Gibeonites: B. Wongar, Joshua 9, and Some Problems of Postcolonialism -- Dreaming the Logos: On Bible Translation and Language -- Conclusion: (E)Strange Dialectics -- Bibliography -- Biblical Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index.