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List of contents
- Introduction by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead
- Background Studies
- 1. Overview of Monster Theory by Doug Cowan
- 2. Monstrous God and Monstrous Creators by Anthony Rees
- 3. Demons and Monsters of Mesopotamia by Anne Marie Kitz
- 4. Ghosts of Mesopotamia by JoAnn Scurlock
- Hebrew Bible Explorations
- 5. Moloch by George Heider
- 6. Anzu by Tammi Schneider
- 7. Giants by Brian Doak
- 8. Lilith by Jessi Knippel and Leland Merritt
- 9. Shapeshifters in Daniel by Michael Hammett
- 10. Monsters of Daniel 7 by Eric Jarrard
- Monsters of the Divine
- 11. Leviathan by Robert Miller II
- 12. Behemoth by Mark Sneed
- 13. Satan by Ryan Stokes
- 14. Sheol by Christopher B. Hays
- 15. The Mischwesen of Ezekiel by Megan Remington
- Rhetoric of Control
- 16. The Monstrous Feminine in the Hebrew Bible by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo
- 17. Monstrosity in the Wisdom of Solomon by Thomas Scott Cason
- New Testament and Second Temple Era
- 18. The Monstrosity of the Crucifixion by Richard Walsh
- 19. Demons in the New Testament by Archie Wright
- 20. The Monstrous Jew in the Gospels by Kelly J. Murphy
- 21. The Monstrous Dragon of Revelation by Heather Macumber
- 22. The Other Monsters of Revelation by David Barr
- Monstrous Afterlives
- 23. Monstrous Angels in the Modern World by Gregory Stevenson
- 24. Biblical Demons in Contemporary Culture by Joseph Laycock
- 25. Satan in Contemporary Culture by Scott Poole
- 26. The Monsters of Young-Earth Creationists by Valarie Ziegler
- 27. Today's Apocalyptic Monsters by Elizabeth Coody
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters brings together the work of world-renowned scholars in Bible, theology, religion, and cultural studies to explore the monsters that rampage through the biblical text.