Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

God's design and postmodernism: recent approaches to Old Testament theology / Paul R. House ; Educating to become wise: intercultural theological education / Marlene Enns ; To know or not to know: Hosea's use of yd?/d?t / Douglas Carew ; The problem of preaching the Old Testament / Franklyn L. Jost ; On truth-telling and biblical theology / Rolf P. Knierim -- Aligning God's people with god's call for justice. Yahweh, justice, and religious pluralism in the Old Testament / Elmer A. Martens ; Creation and peace: creator and creature in Genesis 1-11 / Ben C. Ollenburger ; Jethro in the structure of the book of Exodus / Waldemar Janzen ; The case of the Venus Flytrap: the argument of the book of Job / Pierre Gilbert ; Church of justice / Alfred Neufeld ; Righteousness in Romans: the political subtext of Paul's letter / John E. Toews -- Addressing the issue of land in the life of God's people. O land, land, land: reading the earth story in both Testaments / Elmer A. Martens ; Israel and its land in biblical perspective / Walter C. Kaiser Jr. ; God's design and the church / Timothy J. Geddert ; Biblical perspectives on biodiversity: a conversation with E. O. Wilson / Theodore Hiebert ; All creatures great and small: recovering a deuteronomic theology of animals / Daniel I. Block ; The word made bitter: at the table with Joshua, Buber, and Bakhtin / Gordon H. Matties.