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Contents: Preface. "And they began to speak in other tongues": competing modes of discourse in contemporary biblical criticism, by F Segovia. Acknowledging the contextual character of male, European-American critical exegesis: an androcritical perspective, by D Patte. Toward a hermeneutics of the diaspora: a hermeneutics of otherness and engagement, by F Segovia. Social location and the hermeneutical mode of integration, by H Waetjen. Reading texts as reading ourselves: a chapter in the history of African-American biblical interpretation, by V Wimbush. The author/text/reader and power: suggestions for a critical framework for biblical studies, by G Yee. They're nothing but incestuous bastards: the polemical use of sex and sexuality in Hebrew canon narratives, by R Bailey. Reading from my bicultural place: Acts 6:1-7, by J Gonzalez. "By the rivers of Babylon": exile as a way of life, by A Isasi-Diaz. Reading the Cornelius story from an Asian immigrant perspective, by C Kim. "Hemmed in on every side": Jews and women in the Book of Susanna, by A Levine. "And I will strike her children dead": death and the deconstruction of social location, by T Pippin. Solidarity and contextuality: readings of Matthew 18:21-35, by S Ringe. A second step in African biblical interpretation: a generic reading analysis of Acts 8:26-40, by A Smith. The uninflected therefore of Hosea 4:1-3, by W Brueggemann. Framing biblical interpretation at New York Theological Seminary: a student self-inventory on biblical hermeneutics, by N Gottwald. Reading for liberation, by M Tolbert. The God of Jesus in the Gospel sayings source, by A Wire. The politics and poetics of location, by M Tolbert.