Roland Boer: Introduction: Secularism and the BiblePART A: INITIAL ENGAGEMENT AT THE FORUM1. Michael V. Fox: Scholarship and Faith in Bible Study2. Jacques Berlinerblau: The Unspeakable in Biblical ScholarshipPART B: THE MANIFESTO DEBATE3. Roland Boer: A Manifesto for Biblical Stdies4. Hanna Stenstrom: Boer's Manifesto: Part of the Solution or Part ofthe Problem? Some Reflections from a Swedish Perspective5. Niels Peter Lemche: Guns do not kill, people do!6. Mark G. Brett: Theological Secularity: A Response to Roland Boer7. Todd Penner: Is Boer Among the Prophets? Transforming the Legacy ofMarxian CritiquePART C: THE END OF BIBLICAL STUDIES?8. Hector Avalos: The End of Biblical Studies as a Moral Obligation9. Joseph A. Marchal: Responsibilities to the Publics of BiblicalStudies and Critical Rhetorical Engagements for a Safer World10. Heike Omerzu: A German Landscape: Currents and Credits of NewTestament Studies in Germany During the Past Decades11. Philip Chia: Private or Public? The Challenge of Public Theologyto Biblical StudiesPART D: THE PARADOXES OF SECULARISM12. Ward Blanton: Neither Religious nor Secular: On Saving the Criticin Biblical-Criticism13. Edgar W. Conrad: From Jefferson's Bible to Judge Moore's TenCommandments Monument: Secularizing the Bible in the USA14. Athalya Brenner: From Ruth to Foreign Workers in ContemporaryIsrael: A Case Study in the Interaction of Religion, Politics and theEconomy15. Yairah Amit: The Samaritans - Biblical Considerations in the Solution of a Political Problem16. Philip Davies: The Biblical Roots of Secularism