Introduction R. S. Sugirtharajah The Egyptian Empire in the Bible D. N. Premnath The Neo-Assyrian Empire through a Postcolonial Lens Safwat Marzouk The Babylonian Empire in the Bible Hemchand Gossai Anointed Saviors or Oppressive Enslavers?: Achaemenid Administration and Judean Subjects Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Jewish Negotiations of Hellenistic Power Warren Carter The Roman Empire in the Synoptic Gospels Judith A. Diehl John's Writings and Empire: Views of Empire Studies and Postcolonial Criticism Jin Young Choi The Roman Empire in Paul's Letters Tat-siong Benny Liew The Roman Empire in the Book of Revelation Jacqueline M. Hidalgo The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas and Empire Clara A. B. Joseph Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492-1821 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Scriptural Battlefields: The Old Testament, Legal Culture, and the Polemics of the Spanish New World Empire, 1492-1821 Adrian Masters The Bible and the Dutch Empire Janneke Stegeman The Bible and the British Empire Ralph Broadbent White Woman's Burden and the Bible during the British Occupation of Singapore Chin Ming Stephen Lim The Bible in the German Empire Joerg Rieger The Bible and American Empire Judith H. Newman The Colonizing Other: The Japanese Challenge for Postcolonial Biblical Criticism Emily Anderson The Bible in the Korean Resistance against the Japanese Empire (1910-1945) Jina Kang Competing Narratives on Bible Translation in India: Missionary Linguistics, Postcolonial Criticism, and Translation Studies Hephzibah Israel Bible Translation in the Colonial Project in Africa and Its Impact on African Languages and Cultures Dora R. Mbuwayesango Cross-Textual Interpretation as Postcolonial Strategy in Bible Translation in Asia Archie C. C. Lee Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Queer Studies Jeremy Punt Race, Scriptures, and the Postcolonial World Vincent L. Wimbush Ecology and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism Ellen F. Davis Bible, Empire, Liberalism, and Racial Capitalism Steed Vernyl Davidson Postcolonial Biblical Criticism and Feminist Studies Susanne Scholz Postcolonial Liberation: Decolonizing Biblical Studies in the South African Postcolony Gerald O. West Materialist/Marxist Interpretations and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism Niall McKay The Rise of Postcolonial Criticism in Biblical Studies and Its Current Status Raj Nadella Empire, Postcolonial Criticism, and Biblical Studies Sharon Jacob