Introduction;
1. Reflections from Social Identity Theory on Authoritarianism, Fundamentalism and Narratives of Nationalism and Multiculturalism: From Ezra/Nehemia/Ruth to the Postcolonial Era;
2. From Enmity to Emphaty: Paul and (Re)-Defining the Boundaries of “Us-ness”;
3. Adjustments to Mirror Reading: Finding Opponents, or Just an Audience, from a Text;
4. Reconciliation and Joseph’s ‘Power Over’ His Brothers in Genesis 50:15-21;
5. Figuring a Leader: The Depiction of Abijah in 2 Chronicles 13 as Reinforcing Intra-Group Enmity;
6. Identity and Inclusion in Mark’s Gospel: The Case of Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman (Mark 7:24-30);
7. Desertion or Exclusion: Relationships with the Outgroup in the Johannine Writings;
8. Staging Incest and Identifying the Enemy: Reading 1 Cor 5 in Light of the Black Sheep Effect and Ancient Theatre;
9. ‘They Do Not Keep The Law’ (Galatians 6:13): Forceful Circumcision and the Fruit of the Spirit;
10. Restoring the Enemy? Considering the Pauline Imperative of Galatians 6:1;
11. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul: Middle Management and the mediation of theological and social capital;
12. Postcolonial perspectives on animosity and enemies in Paul;
13. Judaism, Judeo-phobia, and the Conversion of the Royal House of Adiabene;
14. Degradation ceremonies and the politics of the vaccine mandate: An ethnographic analysis of the Melbourne Construction Industry Protests, September 2021; Index.