Introduction: TEXTureS, gestures, power: orientation to radical excavation / Vincent L. Wimbush
Scriptures: text and then some / Catherine Bell
Signifying revelation in Islam / Tazim R. Kassam
Scriptures and the nature of authority: the case of the Guru Granth in Sikh tradition / Gurinder Singh Mann
Dynamics of scripturalization: the ancient Near East / Hugh R. Page Jr.
Known knowns and unknown unknowns: scriptures and scriptural interpretations / R.S. Sugirtharajah
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Signifying scriptures in Confucianism / Yan Shoucheng
Confessions of Nat Turner: memoir of a martyr or testament of a terrorist? / William L. Andrews
Signifying scriptures from an African perspective / Oyeronke Olajubu
Transforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India / Sathianathan Clarke
Signification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization / Sze-kar Wan
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Conjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions / Yvonne P. Chireau
Visualizing scriptures / Colleen McDannell
Signifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music / Jacqueline Cogdell Djedje
Signifying proverbs: Menace II society / Erin Runions
Scriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions / Grey Gundaker
Texture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture / Leslie King-Hammond
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Differences at play in the fields of the lord / Susan F. Harding
American Samson: biblical reading and national origins / Laura E. Donaldson
Against signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil / Leonard Harris
Orality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India / Patrick Olivelle
Reading places/reading scriptures / Wesley A. Kort
Taniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff / Jo Diamond
Scriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing / José Rabasa
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In Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies / Burton L. Visotzky
Powerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Racial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" / Joseph Parker
Who needs the subaltern? / Ranu Samantrai
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