Erin Runions is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Previous publications include 'The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation and Biblical Interpretations' edited with Fiona Black and Roland Boer (1999).

• Introduction Part 1: Theory Chapter 1: Micah: Text, Interpretation, Readers Text Interpretation Readers In sum: Negotiation Chapter 2: Subject Formation: Identifying with Lack The subject Ideology, materiality, subjectivity; Althusser Ideological interpellation, language and text Ideology, language, subjectivity: Zizek using Lacan The lacking subject Identification with the lack in Other The problem of the fixity of the subject Chapter 3: Bhabha and the Subject: Identifying with Difference Bhabha's project The discourse of subjectivity Pedagogical objects and discourses Performative practices Bhabha and the subject's identification with difference Bhabha and the subject formed in ideology Bhabha and reading Reading Micah

"Runions makes a worthy contribution to the study of biblical hermeneutics, especially as it relates to issues of reading theory and gender in the book of Micah... It [the book] is an excellent contribution to the field of biblical studies as it relaties to interpretative theory, gender, and ideology." -Religious Studies Review