Roland Boer
Books
Books15. Under review In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
14. In press Criticism of Theology: On Marxism and Theology III. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
13. In press Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
12. 2009 Criticism of Religion: On Marxism and Theology II. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
11. 2009 Political Grace: The Revolutionary Theology of John Calvin. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.
10. 2009 Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes. New Slant. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. (250 pp). Negotiations are under way for a Serbian translation to be published by Biblioteka XX Vek.
9. 2008 Kao da Kucam na Rajska Vrata: Biblija i Popularna Kultura. Translated by Slobodanka Glišić. Beograd: Biblioteka XX Vek. Serbian translation of Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.
8. 2008 Last Stop Before Antarctica: The Bible and Postcolonialism in Australia. Revised edition. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Publications (215 pp). First edition published by Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
7. 2007 Rescuing the Bible. Blackwell Manifesto Series. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (170 pp). Negotiations are under way for a Chinese translation by CCLM Publishing.
6. 2007 Criticism of Heaven: On Marxism and Theology. Historical Materialism Book Series. Leiden: E. J. Brill (496 pp). Translated by Zhuang Zhenhua into Chinese in two volumes by the CCLM Publishing (Taiwan Christian Literature Council). Translation into Danish under way by Religionspædagogisk Centre (ANIS). Translation into Italian under way by Ombrecorte. Negotiations under way for translation into Turkish by Phoenix Yayinevi.
5. 2007 Symposia: Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation. London: Equinox Press (c. 180 pp).
4. 2003 Marxist Criticism of the Bible. London: Continuum (288 pp). Chinese translation is under way by Shanghai VI Horae Publishers (www.vihorae.com).
3. 1999 Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: The Bible and Popular Culture. Biblical Limits. London: Routledge (220 + x pp). Translated into Serbian, Biblioteka XX Vek, 2008. Bulgarian translation under way by Altera Press.
2. 1997 Novel Histories: The Fiction of Biblical Criticism. Playing the Text 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press (221 + vii pp). Reprint: Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Publications, 2006.
1. 1996 Jameson and Jeroboam. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press (385 + xii pp).
8. Forthcoming The Future of the Biblical Past: Envisioning Biblical Studies on a Global Key. Semeia Studies. Edited with Fernando Segovia. Atlanta, GA; SBL Publications.
7. In press Secularism and Biblical Studies. London: Equinox Press.
6. 2008 Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible. Edited with Jorunn Øklund. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
5. 2007 Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Publications.
4. 2003 Redirected Travel: Alternative Journeys and Places in Biblical Studies. Edited with Ed Conrad. London: Continuum.
3. 2002 Tracking ‘The Tribes of Yahweh’: On the Trail of a Classic. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. London: Continuum / Sheffield Academic Press.
2. 2001 A Vanishing Mediator? The Absence/Presence of the Bible in Postcolonialism. Semeia 88. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature.
1. 1999 The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and Biblical Interpretation. Edited with Fiona Black and Erin Runions. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
216. Forthcoming ‘The Criticism of Earth: On the Dialectic of Materialism and Theology’. Journal TBA.
215. Under review ‘Ontology, Plurality and Roman Catholic Social Teaching: An Engagement with Liberation Theology’. In Politics in Theology, Theology in Politics. Ed. Gabriel R. Ricci. Edison, NJ: Transaction Publishers (Rutgers University).
214. Under review ‘Imperial Fetish: On Anti-Imperial Readings of the Bible’. In Psychoanalytic Mediations: Reading the Bible between Marxism and Postcolonialism. Semeia Studies. Eds. Erin Runions and Tat-Siong Benny Liew. Atlanta: SBL Publications.
213. Under review ‘The Engine Room of Historical Materialism: Max Stirner and The German Ideology’. German Quarterly.
212. Under review ‘The German Pestilence: Re-Assessing Feuerbach, Strauss and Bauer’. In Is This the Carpenter? Examinations on the Historicity of the Historical Jesus. Eds. Thomas Thompson and Thomas Verenna. Copenhagen International Seminar Series. London: Equinox.
211. Under review ‘Bloch, Ernst (1885-1977)’. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin and New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter.
210. Under review ‘Keeping the Faith: the Ambivalent Commitments of Friedrich Engels’. Quodlibet Journal.
209. Under review ‘The Sadness of Friedrich Engels’. Journal of Liberal Religion. www.meadville.edu/LL_JournalLR.htm.
208. Under review ‘Bloodthirsty Little Brats: The Child’s Desire for Biblical Violence’. In In the Picture: Otherness in Children’s Bibles. Eds. Caroline Vander Stichele and Hug Pyper. Semeia Studies. Atlanta: SBL Publications.
207. Under review ‘Marxism and Eschatology Reconsidered’. Mediations.
206. Under review ‘The Robbery of Language? On Roland Barthes and Myth’. In Traces of the Hidden Other: Theological Remnants in 20th Century French Philosophy. Ed. Phillip Tolliday. Adelaide: ATF Press.
205. Under review ‘On Atheism and Theology’. In States of Belief. Eds. Gary Trompf and Philip Quadrio.
204. Under review ‘Black Saturday: Representing Catastrophe’. In Small Screen Revelations: Apocalypse and Prophecy in Contemporary Television. Ed. Marcus O’Donnell. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix.
203. Under Review ‘In the World and Yet Not: The Paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann’. Filozofija i Društvo.
202. Under review ‘The Paradoxes of the Secular State’. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
201. Under review, ‘The Dynamic Equivalence Caper’. In Translation, Culture and Ideology. Eds. Scott Elliott and Roland Boer. Press TBA.
200. Under review ‘Nick Cave’s Trinity of Love: God, Pain and Women’. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.
199. Under review ‘Some Routine Atrocity, or, Letting the Curse of God Roar: Nick Cave and Apocalyptic’. In Apocalypse and Popular Music. Ed. John Walliss. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix.
198. Under review ‘Dead Spouses and Vegetable Gardens, or, Is There Private Property in the Hebrew Bible?’ Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament.
197. Accepted ‘Of Fine Wine, Incense and Spices: The Unstable Masculine Hegemony of the Books of Chronicles’. Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. Republished in Representations of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible. Ed. Ovidiu Creanga. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
196. Accepted ‘Rehoboam Meets Machiavelli’. In Rewriting Biblical History: Essays on Chronicles and Ben Sira in Honor of Pancratius C. Beentjes. Eds. Harm van Grol and Jeremy Corley.
195. Accepted ‘The Poetry and Apocalyptic of E.P. Thompson’. Spaces of Utopia. http://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id05id174&sum=sim
194. Accepted ‘Eunuchs’. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume VII: Literature. Berlin and New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter.
193. Accepted ‘Circumcision’. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Volume VII: Literature. Berlin and New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter.
192. Accepted ‘The Anomaly of Interpretation’. In He Who Runs Reads: Essays in Honor of Edgar W. Conrad. Eds. Julie Kelso, Michael Carden and Roland Boer. Accepted on 21 November 2008.
191. In press ‘A Web of Fascination’. To be translated and published in Bulgarian by Democratic Review (Bulgaria; editor Michail Nedevchev).
190. In press ‘Towards a Materialist Theology, or, Why Atheists (and Marxists) Should Write Theology’. In Reasonable Religion: Theists and Atheists Discuss Religion. Ed. Richard Curtis. Lanham: Lexington Books.
189. In press ‘Theology and the Event: The Ambivalence of Alain Badiou’. Heythrop Journal. Accepted 6 July 2009. Publication 2010.
188. In press ‘Secularism and the Bible’. In Secularism and Biblical Studies. Ed. Roland Boer. London: Equinox Press.
187. In press ‘The Privatisation of Eschatology and Myth: Ernst Bloch Versus Rudolf Bultmann’. Ernst Bloch and the Privatisation of Hope. Eds. Peter Thompson and Slavoj Žižek. SIC series. Durham: Duke University Press. Publication in 2009.
186. In press ‘Paul and Materialist Grace: Slavoj Žižek’s Reformation’. In Paul in Philosophy and Culture. Eds. Ward Blanton and Hent de Vries. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
185. In press ‘A Manifesto for Biblical Studies (Global Edit)’. In Secularism and Biblical Studies. Ed. Roland Boer. London: Equinox Press.
184. In press ‘Love, Pain and Redemption in the Music of Nick Cave’. In Creative Fantasy in Religious Imagination. Sydney Studies in Literature and the Arts. Ed. Chris Hartley. Sydney: University of Sydney Press.
183. In press ‘Jesus of the Moon: Nick Cave’s Christology’, In The Bible In/And Popular Culture: A Creative Encounter. Eds. Elaine Wainwright and Philip Culbertson. Atlanta: Scholar’s Press.
182. In press ‘That Hideous Pagan Idol: Marx, Fetishism and Graven Images’. Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.
181. In press ‘A Fleshly Reading: Masochism, Ecocriticism and the Song of Songs’. In In Search of Philip R. Davies: Whose Festschrift is it Anyway? Eds. Duncan Burns and John Rogerson. London: T&T Clark International/Continuum.
180. In press ‘Folly to the Rich: Ernst Bloch’s Atheism in Christianity’. In Caught Reading Again. Ed. R. S. Sugitharajah. London: SCM Press.
179. In press ‘E.P. Thompson, Antinomianism and the Theology of William Blake’. Sino-Christian Studies.
178. In press ‘E.P. Thompson and the ‘Psychic Terror’ of Methodism’. Thesis Eleven.
177. In press ‘Dungog: The Spatial Production of a Country Church’. Australian Religious Studies Review.
176. In press ‘Of Christian Timelines’. In Christianity (Extended Version). Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House.
175. In press ‘Caught In Between: Australian Biblical Studies Between Asia, the Pacific and the West’. In The Future of the Biblical Past: Envisioning Biblical Studies in a Global Key. Eds. Roland Boer and Fernando Segovia. Semeia Studies, Atlanta: SBL Publications.
174. In press ‘Beauty’. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin and New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter.
173. In press ‘Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands Today’. In Christianity (Extended Version). Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House.
172. In press ‘Asia Today’. In Christianity (Extended Edition). Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House.
171. In press ‘The Artistry of the Text: Hermann Gunkel and Newer Literary Approaches to the Bible’. Accepted on 18 September 2008 for Hermann Gunkel Revisited. Literatur-und religionsgeschichtliche Studien in der Reihe exuz im Lit Verlag erscheinen. Eds. Ute Eisen and Erhard Gersternberger. Münster :LIT Verlag.
170. 2009 ‘Women’s Religious Orders’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 200-1.
169. 2009 ‘William of Ockham’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 194-5.
168. 2009 ‘What Shall We Do With Ungodly Rulers? On Calvin, Theology and Politics’. Australian EJournal of Theology 14 (September). http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal; http://www.acu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/197646/Boer_Calvin.pdf.
167. 2009 ‘Vatican II’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 386-7.
166. 2009 ‘Utopia, Dystopia and Uchronia in Chronicles’. The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 9.11: 9-13. http://www.jhsonline.org.
165. 2009 ‘The Thomas Christians of India’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 262-3.
164. 2009 ‘Southern Ocean Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 272-5.
163. 2009 ‘Sermons’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 292-3.
162. 2009 ‘Seafarers of Antiquity’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 236-9.
161. 2009 ‘Sacred Versus Secular Power’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 166-7.
160. 2009 ‘Sacraments’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 156-7.
159. 2009 ‘The Rise and Fall of Papal Power’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 164-5.
158. 2009 ‘Resistance Versus Accommodation: What to Do With Romans 13?’ In Postcolonial Interventions: Essays in Honor of R.S. Sugirtharajah. Ed. Tat-siong Benny Liew. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, pp. 109-22.
157. 2009 ‘Protestantism in Latin America’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 352-3.
156. 2009 ‘Protestant Christians’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 24-5.
155. 2009 ‘Portuguese Missions’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 260-1.
154. 2009 ‘Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085)’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 168-9.
153. 2009 ‘Peter I Abolishes the Patriarchate’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 306-7.
152. 2009 ‘Pacific Ocean Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 258-63.
151. 2009 ‘Orthodox Revival in Russia’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 374-5.
150. 2009 ‘Orthodox Christianity in Alaska’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 334-5.
149. 2009 ‘On Idolatry’. Bible and Interpretation. December. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/idol357923.shtml.
148. 2009 ‘Ocean Economics’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 420-1.
147. 2009 ‘North Africa’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, p. 71.
146. 2009 ‘Nondenominational Movements’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 26-7.
145. 2009 (with Ibrahim Abraham), ‘Noah’s Nakedness: Islam, Ethnicity and the Fantasy of the Christian West’. In Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, Qur’an as Literary Works. Ed. Roberta Sabbath. Leiden: Brill, pp. 461-73.
144. 2009 ‘The New Old Atheists’, Australian Marxist Review 50 (November): 10-19. Also available at http://www.cpa.org.au/amr/50/amr50-03-new-old-atheists.html.
143. 2009 ‘New Monastic Orders’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 186-7.
142. 2009 ‘Commentary: Negri, Job and the Bible’. In Antonio Negri, The Labor of Job: The Biblical text as a Parable of Human Labor. Translated by Matteo Mandarini. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 109-28.
141. 2009 ‘Myths and Superstitions About the Sea’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 396-7.
140. 2009 ‘Moscow’s Orthodox Patriarchate’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 268-9.
139. 2009 ‘Moorish and Arabic Seafarers’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 246-7.
138. 2009 ‘Modern Shipping Routes’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 422-3.
137. 2009 ‘Modern Day Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 284-7.
136. 2009 ‘Missions to Indonesia’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 354-5.
135. 2009 ‘Marsilius of Padua’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 198-9.
134. 2009 ‘Lay Men and Women’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 188-9.
133. 2009 ‘Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’. In History of Western Philosophy of Religion. Volume IV: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy & Religion. Eds. Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis. Durham: Acumen Publishing, pp. 187-97.
132. 2009 ‘John Calvin and the Paradox of Grace’. Colloquium 41.1: 22-40.
131. 2009 ‘Italian Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 248-9.
130. 2009 ‘Indigenous Christians’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. pp. 424-5.
129. 2009 ‘Indian Ocean Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 264-7.
128. 2009 ‘The Holy Roman Empire’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 118-19.
127. 2009 ‘Goths and Franks’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, p. 78.
126. 2009 (with Ibrahim Abraham), ‘“God Doesn’t Care”: The Breakup of Christian Zionism’. Religion and Theology 16: 90-110.
125. 2009 ‘Global Expansion of Revival Faith’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 388-9.
124. 2009 ‘The Full Story: On Marxism and Religion’. International Socialist Journal 123 (Summer): 161-79. Also available at http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=560&issue=123
123. 2009 ‘The Forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva: Psychoanalysis, Marx and the Taboo of the Mother’. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 33.3: 3-19.
122. 2009 ‘First Women’s Voices’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 202-3.
121. 2009 ‘“Enemies of the Church”’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 192-3.
120. 2009 ‘Eco-Justice, Multivocality, the Religious Left and the Ghosts of Revolution: A Reply to Elvey, Aichele and Jobling. The Bible and Critical Theory 5.2: 23.1–23.12. DOI: 10.2104/bc090023. www.epress.monash.edu.au.
119. 2009 ‘Egypt’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, p. 70.
118. 2009 ‘Developments in New Spain’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 294-5.
117. 2009 ‘Developments in Latin America (20th Century)’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 404-5.
116. 2009 ‘Developments in Latin America (19th Century)’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 378-9.
115. 2009 ‘Developments in Asia (17th Century)’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 296-9.
114. 2009 ‘Development of Vessels’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 230-3.
113. 2009 ‘Development of Navigational and Sailing Skills’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 234-5.
112. 2009 ‘Developing Theory of Papal Power’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 170-1.
111. 2009 ‘Decline of Papal Power’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 172-3.
110. 2009 ‘As Cunning as Serpents and as Innocent as Doves: Towards a Worldly Left’. New Politics 12.3: 58-67.
109. 2009 ‘The Crusades’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 174-5.
108. 2009 ‘Constitutional Life in America’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 314-15.
107. 2009 ‘Congregationalists’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 280-1.
106. 2009 ‘Christianity in Australia’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 396-7.
105. 2009 ‘Christianity and Women’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 428-9.
104. 2009 ‘Christian Intelligentsia in Russia’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 376-7.
103. 2009 ‘Christian History’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 430-1.
102. 2009 ‘Christ’s Humility and Suffering’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 182-3.
101. 2009 ‘Challenges for Western Europe’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 390-1.
100. 2009 ‘California Missions’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 324-5.
99. 2009 ‘Boom in Africa’. In Christianity. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 406-7.
98. 2009 ‘Biblijski motivi u filmovima Alfreda Hičkoka’ (Biblical Motifs in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock). Dnevni List Danas (22 February). http://www.danas.rs/dodaci/vikend/normanovo_i_levitovo_nasilje.26.html?news_id=146804.
97. 2009 ‘The Bible and the Religious Right’. Bible and Interpretation, April. www.bibleinterp.com.
96. 2009 ‘The Beguines’. In Christianity. Eds. Monica Berton, Catherine Etteridge, Heather Jackson, Anne Savage, Marie-Louise Taylor, Dannielle Viera. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 204-5.
95. 2009 ‘The Balloon and the Book: On Calvin and the Bible’. Journal for the Renewal of Religion and Theology 5 (August): http://renewtheology.org/articRBoer0609.htm.
94. 2009 ‘Atlantic Ocean Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 252-7.
93. 2009 ‘Arctic Ocean Exploration’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 268-71.
92. 2009 ‘The Antinomies of Secularism and Religion’. In РЕЛИГИЯ И ГРАЖДАНСКОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО: НОВЬІЕ НАЦИОНАЛЬНБІЕ ГРАНИЦЬІ И ПАРАДОКСБІ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ КУЛЬТУРНОГО ПРОСТРАНСТВА (Religion and Civil Society). Ed. Natalia Gavrilova. Sebastopol, Ukraine: Taurida National University, pp. 18-23.
91. 2009 ‘The Age of Discovery’. In Maritimea: Above and Beneath the Waves. Eds. Loretta Barnard, Helen Cooney, Kate Etherington, James Inglis, Heather Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Dannielle Viera and Jan Watson. Sydney: Millennium House, pp. 250-1.
90. 2008 (with Jorunn Økland) ‘Towards Marxist Feminist Biblical Criticism’. In Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible. Eds. Roland Boer and Jorunn Økland. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, pp. 1-25.
89. 2008 ‘A Titanic Phenomenon: Marxism, History and Biblical Society’. Historical Materialism 16.4: 141-66.
88. 2008 ‘Religion and Utopia in Fredric Jameson’. Utopian Studies 19.2: 285-312.
87. 2008 ‘The New Secularism’. Arena Journal (New Series) 29-30: 35-57.
86. 2008 ‘蔥、扁豆與肉鍋─作為象徵空間的埃及’ (‘Leeks, Lentils and Fleshpots: Egypt as a Symbolic Space’). In Hermeneutics and the Reading of the Bible. Eds. Chin Ken-Pa and Samuel Pin-Cheong Chia. Taipei: CCLM Publishing (Taiwan Christian Literature Council), pp. 83-99. Translated into Chinese. English translation to be published as ‘Egypt as Space of Fear and Space of Hope’. In The Bible and Sacred Space. Ed. Jorunn Økland. Press TBA.
85. 2008 ‘Kirche der Armen II (Church of the Poor)’. In Historisch-kritische Wörterbuch des Marxismus – HKWM 7.1. Edited by Wolfgang Fritz Haug. Argument Verlag, Hamburg (see also www.hkwm.de), pp. 717-24. Translated into German by Markus Weidmann.
84. 2008 ‘Julia Kristeva, Marx and the Singularity of Paul’. In Marxist Feminist Criticism of the Bible. Eds. Roland Boer and Jorunn Økland. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, pp. 204-28.
83. 2008 ‘An Intrinsic Eagleton?’ Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 9.2: 1-16. http://www.jcrt.org/archives/09.2/boer.pdf.
82. 2008 ‘On Christian Communism: The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Kautsky’. Arena Journal (New Series) 31: 63-78.
81. 2008 ‘Authorship’. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, volume 1. Berlin and New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter.
80. 2007 ‘Twenty Five Years of Marxist Biblical Criticism’. Currents in Biblical Research 5.3: 298-321.
79. 2007 ‘Socialism, Christianity and Rosa Luxemburg’. Cultural Logic 10: 1-31. http://clogic.eserver.org/2007/Boer.pdf
78. 2007 ‘Skin Gods: Circumcising the Built Male Body’. Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 1.1:35-44. www.jmmsweb.org.
77. 2007 ‘The Search for Redemption: Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Žižek on Marx, Psychoanalysis and Religion’. Filozofija i Društvo (Philosophy and Society, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade) 32.1: 153-176.
76. 2007 ‘The Sacred Economy of Ancient “Israel”’. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 21.1: 29-48.
75. 2007 ‘Politics Without Theology? The Case of Georg Lukács’. In Moderne Begreifen. Zur Paradoxie eines sozio-ästhetischen Deutungsmusters (Comprehending Modernity. On the Paradoxicality of a Socio-Aesthetic Paradigm). Eds. Christine Magerski, Robert Savage and Christiane Weller, pp. 243-54.
74. 2007 ‘The Perpetual Allure of the Bible for Marxism’. Historical Materialism 15.4: 53-77. DOI: 10.1163/156920607X245832.
73. 2007 ‘Keeping It Literal: The Economy of the Song of Songs’. The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 7: 1-14. http://www.jhsonline.org.
72. 2007 ‘Introduction: Bakhtin, Genre and Biblical Studies’. In Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Publications, pp. 1-7.
71. 2007 ‘From Plato to Adam: The Biblical Exegesis of Walter Benjamin’. The Bible and Critical Theory 3.1: 6.1-6.13. DOI: 10/2104/bc070006.www.epress.monash.edu.au.
70. 2007 ‘The Conundrums of Giorgio Agamben: A Commentary on A Commentary to the Letter to the Romans’. Sino-Christian Studies 3: 1-26.
69. 2007 ‘Bestiality’. In New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible A-B. Ed. Katherine Doob Sakenfield et. al. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.
68. 2007 (with Ibrahim Abraham) ‘The Antinomies of Christian Zionism’ (Antinomije hrišćanskog cionizma). Sociologija 49.3 (July-September; Institute for Sociology, University of Belgrade): 193-204. See also http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=94bf9dc7-cfed-4b3b-8272-c315a0a223d7&articleId=e166403b-1a84-4c31-ad52-1b72771e3d44
67. 2007 ‘Althusser’s Catholic Marxism’. Rethinking Marxism 19.4 (October): 469-86.
66. 2007 ‘The Actuality of Karl Kautsky: On Materialist Reconstructions of Ancient Israel and the Early Church’. The Bible and Critical Theory 3.3: 40.1–40.23. DOI: 10.2104/bc070040. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
65. 2006 ‘An Un-Original Tale: Utopia Denied in Enuma Elish’. Arena Journal (New Series) 25-26: 136-52.
64. 2006 ‘Under the Influence? The Bible, Culture and Nick Cave’. The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 12 (Spring). http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/art12-nickcave.html.
63. 2006 ‘Spirituality’. (Bulgarian) Edno 1.1 (January): 49.
62. 2006 ‘Political Myth: Fable, Politics and the Bible’. International Journal of the Humanities 2.2: 1621-5. See also internet version http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.26/prod.292 . Article: HC04-0194-2004.
61. 2006 ‘On Fables and Truths’. Angelaki 11.2 (August): 107-116.
60. 2006 ‘The Law of the Jealous Man’. In Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honour of David Jobling. Eds. Wesley Bergen and Armin Siedlecki. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, pp. 87-95.
59. 2006 ‘He/brew(‘)s Beer, or H(om)ebrew’. In The Recycled Bible: Autobiographical Criticism, Cultural Criticism, and the Space Between. Ed. Fiona Black. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, Society of Biblical Literature, pp. 45-68.
58. 2006 ‘The Fantasy of Genesis 1-3’. Biblical Interpretation 14.4: 309-31.
57. 2006 ‘Beholden to Whom? A Manifesto for Biblical Studies’. AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 105 (May): 1-18.
56. 2006 ‘Australasia’. Co-authored with Ibrahim Abraham, in The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture. Ed. John Sawyer. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 232-49.
55. 2006 ‘1 and 2 Chronicles’. In The Queer Bible Commentary. Eds. Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West and Tom Bohache. London: SCM Press, pp. 251-67.
54. 2005-6 ‘Phases of the Gonic: Re-Reading Genesis to Joshua as Myth’. (Bulgarian) Λumeраmyрен ВЕСТНИК (Literary Journal) 13 (21 December 2005 – 10 January 2006): 18. Translated into Bulgarian by Natalia Afeyan.
53. 2005 ‘Women First? On the Legacy of Primitive Communism’. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 30.1: 3-28.
52. 2005 ‘Terry Eagleton and the Vicissitudes of Christology’. Cultural Logic 8. http://eserver.org/clogic/2005/boer.html.
51. 2005 ‘Secularism, Utopia and the Discernment of Myth’. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 15 (Fall): 35-45. See also http://www.uiowa.edu/~ijcs/secular/boer.htm. Reprinted in Locations of Spirituality: Experiences and Writings of the Sacred. Ed. Linda Rae Bennett and Minoru Hokari. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society, Latrobe University, 2006.
50. 2005 ‘Political Myth, or, Foreign Policy and the Fantasy of Israel’. Arena Journal 23 (new series): 77-96.
49. 2005 ‘Paul Ricoeur: 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005’. Radical Philosophy 133: 69-72.
48. 2005 ‘Особенumе Зероu’. (Queer Heroes) Λumeраmyрен ВЕСТНИК (Literary Journal) 22, 15-21 June: 12. Translated into Bulgarian by Natalia Afeyan.
47. 2005 ‘No Road: On the Absence of Feminist Criticism of Ezra-Nehemiah’. In Her Master’s Tools: Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse. Eds. Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, pp. 233-52.
46. 2005 ‘Marx, Postcolonialism and the Bible’. In Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections. Eds. Stephen Moore and Fernando Segovia. London: T. & T. Clark International, pp. 166-83.
45. 2005 ‘Манuфесm за uзучаване на Бuбλuяmа’ (A Manifesto for Biblical Studies (Concise Edit)) КУΛТУРА 23-24 (17 June): 14-15. Translated into Bulgarian by Natalia Afeyan and Milena Kirova.
44. 2005 ‘A Level Playingfield? Metacommentary and Marxism’. In On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalism. Eds. Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 51-70.
43. 2005 ‘Gates to the Garden: Nick cave og bibelteksternes efterliv’ (Gates to the Garden: The Afterlives of Nick Cave). Fønix (Denmark) 29.3-4 (December): 31-47. Translated into Danish by Christina Petterson and Søren Holst.
42. 2005 ‘Fundamentalism’. In The New Keywords. Eds. Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris. London: Blackwells, pp. 134-7.
41. 2005 ‘David and Goliath (1 Samuel 16-17): The Ideology of Biblical Popular Culture’. In Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction. Eds. Mark Roncace and Patrick Gray. Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature, pp. 153-4.
40. 2004 ‘Dear Moses’. In Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible. Ed. Philip Davies. London: Equinox, pp. 27-32.
39. 2004 ‘The Bible and the Beekeeper’s Manual: Raymond Williams and Religion’. Arena Journal 22 (new series): 159-77.
38. 2004 ‘Althusser, Myth and Genesis 1-3’. The Journal for Philosophy and Scripture 1.2 (Spring); http://www.philosophyandscripture.org/index.html.
37. 2003 ‘Sanctuary and Womb’. Redirected Travel: Alternative Journeys and Places in Biblical Studies. Eds. Roland Boer and Edgar Conrad. London: Continuum, pp. 162-84. Pre-published as ‘Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space’. In Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers. Atlanta: SBL Publications, pp. 24-48. Also published on the ‘Constructions of Ancient Space’ seminar site: www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2000papers/Boer.html. Reprint as ‘Henri Lefebvre: The Production of Space in 1 Samuel’. Constructions of Space II: The Biblical City and Other Imagined Spaces. Eds. Jon L. Berquist and Claudia V. Camp. London: T. & T. Clark, 2009, pp. 78-101.
36. 2003 ‘Introduction: The Bible and Critical Theory’. In Redirected Travel: Alternative Journeys and Spaces in Biblical Studies. Eds. Roland Boer and Ed Conrad. London: Continuum, pp. 1-7.
35. 2003 ‘The Bowels of History, or, The Perpetuation of Biblical Myth in Walter Benjamin’. The Journal of Narrative Theory 32.3: 370-89.
34. 2002 ‘Political Activism and Biblical Scholarship: An Interview with Norman Gottwald’. In Tracking ‘The Tribes of Yahweh’: On the Trail of a Classic. Ed. Roland Boer. London: Continuum/Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 161-76.
33. 2002 ‘Non-Sense: Total Recall, Paul and the Possibility of Psychosis’. In Screening Scripture. Eds. George Aichele and Richard Walsh. Louisville, PA: Trinity Press International, pp. 120-54.
32. 2002 ‘Marx, Method and Gottwald’. In Tracking ‘The Tribes of Yahweh’: On the Trail of a Classic. Ed. Roland Boer. London: Continuum/Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 98-156.
31. 2002 ‘Introduction: On Re-reading The Tribes of Yahweh’. In Tracking ‘The Tribes of Yahweh’: On the Trail of a Classic. Ed. Roland Boer. London: Continuum/Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 1-9.
30. 2001 ‘Yahweh as Top: A Lost Targum’. In Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible. Ed. Ken Stone. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, pp. 75-105.
29. 2001 ‘Introduction: Vanishing Mediators?’ Semeia 88: A Vanishing Mediator? The Absence/Presence of the Bible in Postcolonialism (Ed. Roland Boer): 1-12.
28. 2001 ‘Explorer Hermeneutics, or Fat Damper and Sweetened Tea’. Semeia 88: A Vanishing Mediator? The Absence/Presence of the Bible in Postcolonialism (ed. Roland Boer): 71-95.
27. 2000 ‘A Slacker’s Guide to Postmodernism’. Australasian Pentecostal Studies 2/3. Available at http://aps.webjournals.org/articles/1/03/2000/2975.htm?id={BB3A95BF-7951-47CF-8629-DF8A6270ABE3}.
26. 2000 ‘The Second Coming: Repetition and Insatiable Desire in the Song of Songs’. Biblical Interpretation 8.3: 276-301.
25. 2000 ‘Marxism and the Bible’. Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry 1.1. www.uow.edu.au/arts/joscci/
24. 2000 ‘King Solomon Meets Annie Sprinkle’. Semeia 82: In Search of the Present: The Bible Through Cultural Studies (Ed. Stephen Moore): 151-82
23. 2000 ‘Fredric Jameson’. In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation. Ed. Andrew K. M. Adam. St. Louis: Chalice, pp. 138-43.
22. 2000 ‘Bilbies, Gumnuts and Thanksgiving, or, the Commodified Religious Imagination in Australia and America’. Australian Religious Studies Review 13.1 (Autumn): 40-55.
21. 2000 ‘Banality and Sacrifice’. In Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust. Ed. Tod Linafelt. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 146-60.
20. 1999 ‘Utopian Politics in 2 Chronicles 10-13’. In The Chronicler as Author: Studies in Text and Texture. Eds. M. Patrick Graham and Steven L. McKenzie. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 263. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 360-394.
19. 1999 ‘The Resurrection Engine of Michel de Certeau’. Paragraph (Edinburgh) 22.2: 199-212.
18. 1999 ‘On the Road to Nowhere: Another Look at the Pilgrim People’. Uniting Church Studies 5.2: 15-32.
17. 1999 (with Erin Runions and Fiona Black) ‘Introduction’. In The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and Biblical Interpretation. Eds. Fiona Black, Roland Boer and Erin Runions. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, pp. 1-12.
16. 1999 ‘Genesis as a Cultural Event’. Religious Studies Review 25.4 (October): 350-357.
15. 1999 ‘David is a Thing’. In The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and Biblical Interpretation. Eds. Fiona Black, Roland Boer and Erin Runions. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, pp. 163-76.
14. 1999 ‘Culture, Ethics and Identity in Reading Ruth: A Response to Donaldson, Dube, McKinlay and Brenner’. In Ruth and Esther. The Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series). Ed. Athalya Brenner. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 163-70.
13. 1998 ‘Western Marxism and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible’. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 78: 3-21.
12. 1998 ‘Second Isaiah: Biblical Theology and Historical Materialism’. Biblical Interpretation 6.2: 181-204.
11. 1998 ‘Remembering Babylon: Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies in Australia’. In The Postcolonial Bible. Ed. R. S. Sugirtharajah. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 24-48.
10. 1998 ‘Ezekiel’s Axl, or, Anarchism and Ecstasy’. In Violence, Utopia and the Kingdom of God. Eds. Tina Pippin and George Aichele. New York: Routledge, pp. 24-46.
9. 1997 ‘National Allegory in the Hebrew Bible’. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 74: 95-116.
8. 1997 ‘Iconic Death and the Question of Civil Religion’. In Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning. Ed. Re:Public. Sydney: Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, pp. 81-6.
7. 1996 ‘Green Ants and Gibeonites: B. Wongar, Joshua 9 and Some Problems of Postcolonialism’. Semeia 75: 129-152.
6. 1996 ‘Collectively Postmodern: A Review of The Postmodern Bible’. (Article review) Australian Religious Studies Review 9.1 (Autumn): 92-103.
5. 1995 ‘Theology and Cultural Studies’. Australian Religious Studies Review 8.2 (September): 94-99.
4. 1995 ‘Preaching Dungog: The Australian Rural Parish as a Site for Cultural Criticism’. Uniting Church Studies 1.2 (August): 25-46.
3. 1995 ‘Christological Slippage and Ideological Structures in Schwarzenegger’s Terminator’. Semeia 69/70:165-193.
2. 1995 ‘Breakfast at McDonald’s: Postmodernism, Periodization and Biblical Studies’. In Theological Education for Ministry in the 21st Century: Responding to Change. Ed. Gordon Dicker. Ministerial Education Commission: Consultation of Theological Education, pp. 82-105.
1. 1994 ‘Religious Pluralism in Australia: An Argument for Totalization’. In A Question of Power and Survival: UNE Symposium on Assimilation, Pluralism and Multiculturalism. Ed. S. Gamage. Armidale: Dept. of Aboriginal and Multicultural Studies, pp. 130-139.
Non-Refereed Journal Articles
46. Under review ‘North of the Arctic Circle on the Sarfaq Ittuk’. Public Republic.
45. Under review ‘Through Uncivilised Europe: From Copenhagen to Sofia by Train’. Public Republic.
44. Under review ‘Bicycles, Beserkers and Royals: In Search of Denmark’. Arena Magazine.
43. Under review ‘Croatia’. Arena Magazine.
42. Under review ‘Greenland Turns Red’. State of Nature.
41. Accepted ‘Alone on the Waddenzee’. TravelMag. www.travelmag.co.uk.
40. Accepted ‘Nullarbor’. Arena Magazine. Accepted 16 January 2009.
39. 2009-10 ‘Peter’s Sutton’s Pietism’. Arena Magazine 103 (December-January): 31-3.
38. 2009 ‘Writing with Jethro Tull’. All Voices, 26 July. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3764239-writing-with-jethro-tull.
37. 2009 ‘Theology and the Public University’, All Voices, 6 October. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4315719-theology-and-the-public-university.
36. 2009 ‘Our Christian Prime Minister: Kevin Rudd and Catholic Social Teaching’. New Matilda. http://newmatilda.com/2009/06/02/our-christian-prime-minister.
35. 2009 ‘On the Dalmatian Coast’. All Voices, 24 May. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3288174-on-the-dalmatian-coast.
34. 2009 ‘Narratives of Environmental Catastrophe’. State of Nature (Winter). http://www.stateofnature.org/narrativesOfEnvironmental.html.
33. 2009 ‘The Myth of the Holy Land’. New Matilda. http://newmatilda.com/2009/02/02/myth-holy-land.
32. 2009 ‘Made in USSR’. Arena Magazine 102 (October-November): 45-7.
31. 2009 ‘A Greenland Diary’. Arena Magazine 100 (June): 67-9.
30. 2009 ‘Of Flowers, Opium and Protest: Biblical Studies and Marxist Criticism of Religion’. Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion 38.1 (February): 1-4.
29. 2009 ‘Editorial’. Bible and Critical Theory 5.1: 0.1-0.3. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
28. 2009 ‘Commonwealth of the Mind: On Rudolf Bultmann’. Dr. Jim West: Bible, Theology, and Current Events, 20 August 2009. http://jwest.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/boer-on-bultmann.
27. 2009 ‘The China Run’. Public Republic. 10 December. http://www.public-republic.net/the-china-run.php.
26. 2009 ‘Beer and the Origins of Society’. All Voices, 1 August. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3815666-beer-and-the-origins-of-society.
25. 2008-9 ‘Road Kill’. Arena Magazine 98 (December-January): 42-3.
24. 2008 ‘Драж кратких тренутака пронађених у Бивблији’ (Draž kratkih trenutaka pronađenih u bibliji – The Lure of short moments in the Bible). Interview by Dejan Vujanic in Glas Srpske (the leading newspaper in Bosnia-Herzegovinia), 27-28 December: 25. www.glassrpske.com. Translated into Serbian.
23. 2008 ‘Is Humanism Really a Secular Project? Australian Humanist 91 (Spring): 16-18.
22. 2008 ‘Jim West Interviews Roland Boer’. Biblioblogs, 1 November. http://www.biblioblogs.com/featured-blogs/200811/
21. 2008 ‘Response to Anne Elvey’. Religion Compass, 1 November. http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/stolen-bibles/
20. 2008 ‘Ship Politics’. Arena Magazine 97 (October-November): 42-4.
19. 2008 ‘Mike Bird, Evangelicalism and the Left’. Religion Compass, 16 October. http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/stolen-bibles/#comment-42.
18. 2008 ‘Stolen Bibles’. Religion Compass. 1 October. http://religioncompass.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/stolen-bibles/#more-205.
17. 2008 ‘Belgrade (The White City) and the End of Communism’. Arena Magazine 96 (August-September 2008): 42-4.
16. 2008 ‘Postcard from Bulgaria’. Arena Magazine 95 (June-July 2008): 42-3.
15. 2008 ‘China Miéville’s Imagination’. Arena Magazine 94 (April-May 2008): 48-50.
14. 2008 ‘On Free Speech: Some Reflections on Religion, Politics and Twelve Cartoons’. State of Nature. 15 March. http://www.stateofnature.org/onFreeSpeech.html.
13. 2008 ‘A Revolutionary Bible? Thomas Müntzer and Gerrard Winstanley’. Arena Magazine 93 (February-March 2008): 21-5.
12. 2008 ‘A Difficult Love Affair? On the Relation Between Marxism and Theology’. Returns of Marxism. 10 January. Ed. Sara Farris. http://www.iire.org/content/view/133/1/lang,eng.
11. 2007 ‘What is the Bible and Critical Theory Journal?’ The Bible and Critical Theory 3.3 (October 2007); www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
10. 2007 ‘Editorial’. The Bible and Critical Theory 3.2 (June 2007): 17.1-17.3. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
9. 2007 ‘Editorial’. The Bible and Critical Theory 3.1 (February 2007): 0.1-0.2. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
8. 2006 ‘Cosmopolitanism and Biblical Studies (With a Welcome to Society of Biblical Literature Readers)’. The Bible and Critical Theory 2.3 (October): 26.1-26.3. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
7. 2006 ‘Thrown in Bulgaria’. КУΛТУРА 34 (6 October): 5. Translated into Bulgarian by Milena Kirova.
6. 2006 ‘Dossier on the Seminar’. The Bible and Critical Theory 2.2 (June): 13.1-13.2. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
5. 2005 ‘Editorial’. The Bible and Critical Theory 1.4 (November): 33.1-33.2. DOI: 10.2104/bc050033. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc
4. 2005 ‘Editorial’. The Bible and Critical Theory 1.3 (August): 13.1-13.4. DOI 10.2104/bc050013. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc
3. 2005 ‘Editorial’. The Bible and Critical Theory 1.2 (March): 01.1-01.4. DOI 10.2104/bc050001. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc
2. 2004 ‘Editorial’. The Bible and Critical Theory 1.1 (November): 01.1-01.5. DOI 10.2104/bc040001. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc
1. 1996 ‘Postmodernism: A Guide for Consumers’. Bulletin for the Institute for Religion and the Arts 23 (May): 2-4
26. Accepted Review of Carolyn J. Sharp, Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). Australian Religion Studies Review.
25. Accepted Review of Carole R. Fontaine, With Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2004). The Bible and Critical Theory. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
24. Accepted Review of Marion Grau, Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption. (Marion Grau. London: T&T Clark International, 2004). The Bible and Critical Theory. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
23. Accepted Review of Mieke Bal, Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xx + 259 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03587-1; ISBN-10: 0-226-03587-5). The Bible and Critical Theory. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
22. Accepted Review of Deborah W. Rooke (ed.), A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix. xii + 184 pages. ISBN-13 978-1-906055-20-2. ISSN 1747-9614). The Bible and Critical Theory. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
21. 2009 Review of Richard Horsley (ed.), In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008). Review of Biblical Literature. http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6889_7464.pdf.
20. 2009 Review of Mark Brett, Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008). Review of Biblical Literature. http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/6923_7502.pdf.
19. 2008 Review of John Carroll, The Existential Jesus (Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. 274 pages). Australian Religion Studies Review 21.2: 243-4. DOI: 10.1558/aasr.v21i2.243.
18. 2008 Review of James A. Metzger, Consumption and Wealth in Luke’s Travel Narrative (Biblical Interpretation Series 88. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007. ix + 216 pages). The Bible and Critical Theory 4.3 (October): 41.1-41.3. www.epress.monash.edu.au.
17. 2008 Review of Warren S. Goldstein (ed.), Marx, Critical Theory and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, vol. 6. Leiden: Brill, 2006). The Bible and Critical Theory 4.2 (June): 39.1-39.4. www.epress.monash.edu.au.
16. 2008 Review of Steven Schweitzer, Reading Utopia in Chronicles (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, vol. 442; New York: T &T Clark, 2007). The Bible and Critical Theory 4.2 (June): 30.1-30.3. www.epress.monash.edu.au.
15. 2008 Review of Manfred Oeming, Contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics: An Introduction (Translated by Joachim Vette. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). Australian Religion Studies Review 21.1: 110-11. DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v21i1.102.110.
14. 2008 Review of Ehud Ben Zvi (ed.), Utopia and Dystopia in Prophetic Literature (Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 92. Helsinki: Finnish Exegetical Society / Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006). The Bible and Critical Theory 4.1 (February): 07.1-07.3. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
13. 2006 Review of Gale Yee, Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress, 2003). The Bible and Critical Theory 2.3 (October): 41-1-41-4. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
12. 2005 Review of Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel, with a reprint of the article ‘Israel’ from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1994). Journal of Biblical Literature 124.2: 349-54.
11. 2005 ‘Laicising the Infinite: Peter Hallward on Alain Badiou’. Review of Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth. Foreword by Slavoj Žižek. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). The Bible and Critical Theory 1.2: 11-1-11-4. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
10. 2004 ‘The Political Limits of Lacan’, Review of Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (London: Verso, 2000), The Bible and Critical Theory 1.1: 10-1-10-5. www.epress.monash.edu.au/bc.
9. 2004 Review of The Earth Bible in Wisdom Traditions. The Earth Bible 3. Eds. Norman Habel and Shirley Wurst (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003). The Australian Theological Book Reviewer (http://www.atbr.openbook.com.au/March).
8. 2003 ‘The Return of the Theologian?’ A review of Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent (London: Verso, 2003), Southern Review 36.3: 97-100.
7. 1999 ‘An Appetite for Brecht’, A Review of Fredric Jameson, Brecht and Method (London: Verso, 2000), Southern Review 32.2: 253-5.
6. 1998 Review of Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film. Eds. Joel W. Martin and Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1995). Mythosphere 1.1: 50-56.
5. 1998 Review of Edgar French, The Nations’ Guilt: An Australian Psychosis. n.p. The Forum on Faith and Society, 1994. Uniting Church Studies 4.2: 66-7.
4. 1997 ‘Barthes’s Mark: A Review of Jesus Framed’. A review of George Aichele, Jesus Framed (London: Routledge, 1998), Australian Religion Studies Review 10.1 (Autumn): 67-69.
3. 1997 ‘Politicizing Evil’. A review of Radical Evil. S2. Ed. Joan Copjec (London: Verso, 1996), ARC: The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies of McGill University 25: 157-159.
2. 1995 Review of Delphine Delphin-Stanford and John Brown. Committed to Change: Covenanting in the Uniting Church of Australia (Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1994). Uniting Church Studies 1.1: 128-9.
1. 1993 Review of N. Ross Reat and Edmund F. Perry, A World Theology: The Central Spiritual Reality of Humankind (Cambridge, Eng: Cambridge University Press, 1991), Australian Religion Studies Review 6.1: 76-81.
I happen to be a writer and critic attached to the
University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan
NSW 2308 Australia
Roland.Boer@newcastle.edu.au
Born: February 22, 1961, in Geelong, Australia.
Citizenship: Australian.
1993 Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal, Canada (Dean’s Honour List)
1989 M.Th. (Honours) University of Sydney (First Class)
1988 B.D. (Honours) University of Sydney (University Medal)
1982 B.A. University of Newcastle
2010 Det Frei Forskningsrådet for Kultur og Kommunikation (Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation) START grant, Religion and Political Thought, DKK 288,000 (AUD $65000).
2009-11 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth, $138,000.
2009 Visiting Fellowship, Research School of the Humanities, Australian National University for The Criticism of Heaven and Earth project.
2005-7 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, Political Myth and the Bible, $114,000.
2005-7 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, Demanding the Impossible (member of team), $360,000.
2005 Research Project Development Scheme, Monash University Faculty of Arts, for Institute for Religion and Politics, $10,000.
2005 North America Steering Group Collaborative Research Grants, Monash University, Institute for Religion and Politics, $31,000.
2005 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Grant, Monash University Faculty of Arts, for Professor Milena Kirova, Head of the Department of Bulgarian Literature, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, $4,000
2004 Monash Research Fund Grant Demanding the Impossible (member of team), $30,000
2004 Project Completion Grant, Monash University, for Catholic Marxism? $3,000
2004 Small Grant, Monash University, for Caught in the Prolegomena, $7,500
2003 Small Grant, Monash University, for Political Myth, $5,760
2002-3 Research Initiatives Grant, Monash University, for Political Myth, $7,000
2002 Research Infrastructure Grant, University of Queensland, for Critical Theory and the Bible (major grant writer in team): $30,000
2001 Research Concentration Grant, University of Queensland, for Critical Theory and the Bible (grant writer in team): $10,000
2001 Research Strengths Support Scheme, Monash University, for Culture and Belief (chief investigator and major grant writer in team): $49,212
2000-6 Logan Research Fellowship (Monash) for Postmarxism and the Bible, $380,000
1999 Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University for Last Stop Before Antarctica.
1993 Dean’s Honour List for Ph.D. (McGill University)
1992 Research Support Scheme, University of New England Faculty of Arts, for Jameson and Jeroboam, $1600
1991 Baillieu Research Scholarship, University of Sydney, $1500
1990 Herbert Johnson Travel Grant, University of Sydney, $1000
1989 Herbert Johnson Travel Grant, University of Sydney, $1000
1989 First Class Honours for M.Th., University of Sydney
1988 James King of Irrawang Prize, University of Sydney
1988 Study Grant, Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in the State of New South Wales, $6000
1988-91 Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship to McGill University, Montreal, Canada, $120,000
1988 University Medal and First Class Honours for B.D., University of Sydney University
1987 Mitchell Award for Greek, Presbyterian Theological Centre, Sydney
1985 Rachel McKibbin Prize, University of Sydney
1981 James King Memorial Prize, University of Newcastle
2010 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway.
2009 Invited Lecture, The Existentialist Society, Melbourne, 4 August.
2009 Invited address for ‘Traces of the Hidden Other: Theological Remnants in 20th Century French Philosophy’. Hong Kong University, 25-28 June: ‘Roland Barthes’.
2009 Invited Lecture, Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, 11 May: ‘Calvin and Political Theology, 500 Years On’.
2009 Invited address for ‘States of Belief’. University of Sydney, 26-27 February: ‘On Atheism’.
2008 Keynote address, ‘Ethics in the Humanities’ conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, 20 November: ‘Against Ethics’.
2008 Invited Lecture, Victorian Humanists’ Society, Melbourne, 26 August: ‘Is Humanism Really a Secular Project?’
2008 Otago Open Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand, 9 July: ‘On Calvin and Revolution’.
2008 Keynote Lecture, Conference of the Forum of the Christian Left (FOCAL), Auckland, New Zealand, 5 July: ‘Rescuing Global Citizenship’.
2008 Invited panel on my book, Rescuing the Bible (Blackwell 2007) at the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Auckland, New Zealand, 6-11 July.
2007 Invited Lecture, Department of Religion, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, University of Amsterdam, 2 October: ‘Biblical Studies and Postcolonialism’.
2007 Invited Public Lecture, International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam, 2 October: ‘A Difficult Love Affair? On the Relation Between Marxism and Theology’.
2007 Invited Presentation, British New Testament Conference, Exeter, 6-8 September: ‘Julia Kristeva, Marx and the Singularity of Paul’.
2007 Visiting International Scholar, Department of Religion, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, University of Amsterdam, 1 September to 7 October.
2007 Invited presentation, Nordic New Testament Conference, Helsingbor, Sweden, 18-22 August: ‘Gender Plus? On Male Virgins in Early Christian and Early Jewish texts’.
2007 Invited address, International Conference on Hermeneutics and the Reading of the Bible, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, 22-24 March: ‘Leeks, Lentils and Fleshpots: The Spatial Production of Egypt’.
2007 Invited Lecture, China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan, 22 March: ‘The Economy of the Song of Songs’.
2007 Invited Lecture, Department of Cultural Studies, National Chung Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 21 March: ‘Twenty-Five Years of Marxist Biblical Criticism’.
2006 Invited presentation on my book, Criticism of Heaven (Brill 2007), at the Historical Materialism conference, London, 8-10 December.
2006 Invited Lecture, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 28 November: ‘The Antinomies of Christian Zionism’.
2006 Invited Lecture, Institute for Sociology, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 27 November: ‘(Ab)using the Bible: Conflicts in Politics and Science’.
2006 Invited Public Lecture, Department of Theology, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland, 6 April: ‘There is No Such Thing as Free Speech: Religion, Politics and Twelve Cartoons’.
2006 Visiting International Scholar, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland, 24 February to 21 April.
2005 Panel devoted to Marxist Criticism of the Bible (T&T Clark 2003), Ideological Criticism Section at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 19-22 November.
2005 Invited Lecture Series, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 October and 2 November: ‘A Manifesto for Biblical Studies’ and ‘Re-reading Genesis to Joshua as Myth’.
2005 Invited Lecture, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 30 October: ‘A Manifesto for Biblical Studies’.
2005 Invited Lecture, Centre for the Study of the Bible in Theology and Culture, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 September: ‘Gates to the Garden: The Afterlives of Nick Cave’.
2005 Invited Lecture, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, University of Amsterdam, 13 September: ‘Under the Influence: The Bible and Culture’.
2005 Keynote Presentation, along with Alain Badiou, Peter Hallward, Bruno Bosteels and Alberto Moreiras, at the conference ‘Singularity and Multiplicity’, Duke University, 26 March: ‘On Fables and Truths’.
2005 Invited Lecture, sponsored by the Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 17 March: ‘Beholden to Whom: A Manifesto for Biblical Studies’.
2004 Invited Lecture, Women’s Program, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA, 14 October: ‘Marxism, Feminism and the Bible: The Case of Genesis 1-3’.
2004 Lilly Visiting Lecture, Austin College, Texas, 12 October: ‘Chronically Camp’.
2004 Invited Public Lecture, Literature Program, Duke University, 15 September: ‘Genuine Heresies: Paul Among the Philosophers’.
2004 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Literature Program, Duke University, 1 August to 31 December (autumn semester). Invitation by Fredric Jameson.
2003 Keynote Lecture at ‘The Future of Utopia: Is Innovation Still Possible in Politics, Culture, Theory’. An Interdisciplinary Conference in Honour of Fredric Jameson, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 24-27 April: ‘Eschatology and Utopia’.
2002 Flinders Theology Lecture. Flinders University, Adelaide, 26 September: ‘Home is Always Elsewhere: Exodus, Exile and the Howling Wilderness’.
2002 Invited Lecture for ‘Locations of Spirituality: Experiences and Writings of the Sacred’, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 26-27 October: ‘Secularism, Utopia and the Discernment of Myth’.
Academic Positions
2009- Faculty Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle.
2006-8 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University.
2004 Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Literature Program, Duke University, USA (autumn semester)
2003-5 Senior Logan Research Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne
2000-2 Logan Research Fellow, Monash University, Melbourne
2001-3 Honorary Research Consultant, University of Queensland
1999 Visiting Lecturer in Religion and Culture, University of Western Sydney Nepean
1996 Visiting Lecturer in World Religions, Union Theological Institute, Sydney
1994-9 Lecturer in Hebrew Bible and World Religions, United Theological College, Sydney
1992-3 Foundation Lecturer in Studies in Religion, University of New England
1988-91 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
1988 Lecturer, part-time, School of Divinity, Sydney University
1986-87 Tutor, School of Divinity, Sydney University
1982-83 Assistant Master to Teach Classics, Cranbrook School; final term as acting head of department