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Books

Joshua and the Rhetoric of Violence, Sheffield University Press, 1996

A Topography of Biblical Studies as an Academic Discipline, forthcoming

Articles

"Lady of the Earth and Moon: Goddess Imagery and the Ya-Yas," in Songs of the New South: Writing Contemporary Louisiana, Suzanne Disheron Green and Lisa Abney, eds., Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 115-122.

"Disney's Pocahontas and Joshua's Rahab In Postcolonial Perspective" in Culture, Entertainment and the Bible, George Aichele, ed., (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 309), Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, pp. 66-75.

"Inclusion, Exclusion and Marginality in the Book of Joshua," article published in JSOT 55 (1992), pp. 15-23, Sheffield.

"Tiamat as Literary Image: Eating Disorders and the Forces of Social Control," in Literature and Addiction, Sue Vice, ed., Sheffield Academic Press, 1992

Addresses and Lectures

"The Disorder of Things: Is a Post-Modern Reconfiguration of the Humanities Possible?" invited paper for the South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, October, 1996

"Co-opting the Female Body," Religion, Peace and War Section, AAR/SBL National Conference, New Orleans, November, 1996

"Images of Gender, Nature, and Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia," Cultural Studies Symposium, Manhattan, KS, March, 1996

"Primordial Combat or Sacred Marriage: New Year's Rituals in Ancient Mesopotamia," Text and Presentation Conference, Gainesville, FL, March, 1996

"Dismembering the Goddess-Body: Tiamat in Babylonian Myth," National Women's Studies Association Conference, Ames, IA, June, 1994

"Public Execution in Joshua: A Foucauldian Reading," Upper Midwest Regional SBL Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April, 1994

"The Uses of Violence: A Foucauldian Reading of the Ancient Assyrian Palace Reliefs," International Association for Word and Image Studies," Third International Congree, Carleton University Centre for Rhetorical Studies, Ottawa, Ontario, August, 1993

"The Politics of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Characterization: The Case of Rahab," 1992 SBL National Conference, San Francisco, November, 1992

"Foucault's 'Spectacle of the Scaffold' and the Achan Incident in Joshua 7," Southwest Regional SBL Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, March, 1992

"Fear of the Other," AAR/SBL National Conference, Kansas City, November, 1991

"Holy War/Bloody Murder: the Rhetoric of Violence in the Ancient Near East," Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities Section, South Central Modern Language Association, Fort Worth, TX, October, 1991

"A Feminist Reading of the Book of Joshua," Southwest Biblical Studies Seminar, Dallas, October, 1991

"The 'New Historicism' and the Field of Biblical Studies," Department of Religious Studies Colloquy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, November, 1991

"Circulation of Social Energy: the Implications of the 'New Historicism' for Biblical Studies," International SBL meeting, Rome, July, 1991

"'All Israel' as Literary Trope: Inclusion, Exclusion and Marginality in the Book of Joshua," Literary Criticism Section, Southwest Regional SBL Conference, Dallas, March, 1991

"The Rhetoric of Violence: The Use of Assyrian War Oracle Language in the Conquest Narrative," Rhetorical Criticism Section, SBL National Conference, New Orleans, November, 1990

"Deconstructing the Conquest Narrative," presented at the Cambridge University Seminar on Interpretation and Change, May, 1989

 

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