Acknowledgments (vii)
List of Works by Margaret Atwood (ix)
About the Contributors (xiii)
Introduction: Getting our Hands on It - Rhiannon Graybill and Peter J. Sabo (1)
PART I. SURFACING (25)
1. “Always a potent object”?: The Shifting Role of the Bible in Margaret Atwood’s Novels (27) - Hannah M. Strømmen
2. Margaret Atwood's Survival as Prophetic Canadian Nation-building - Sara Parks and Anna Cwikla (55)
3. The Handmaid’s Tale, the Bible, and the Canadian Residential School System: A Dystopian Warning - Maryann Amor (83)
PART II. IN OTHER WORLDS (109)
4. Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Bibles: “First the Bad Things, Then the Story” - Richard Walsh (111)
5. Margaret Atwood’s Primordial Myth - Jennifer L. Koosed (135)
6. Eschatologically Expecting: Reading Apocalyptic Childbirth Through Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale - Alexis Felder Boyer (157)
PART III. DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN (179)
7. “You Should Not Take Baths Outside in the Garden”: Alias Grace, the Male Gaze, and Susanna and the Elders - Peter J. Sabo (181)
8. Writing Re-Vision: On Margaret Atwood’s Rewriting of Canon as Poststructuralist Midrash - Robert Paul Seesengood (211)
9. The Snake, The Poet: Art and Duplicity in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry and the Hebrew Bible - Sean Burt (237)
PART IV. SCALES AND TAILS (257)
10. Queer Animalities in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and the Hebrew Bible - Ken Stone (259)
11. How To Live At the End of the World: The Bible and Theology in the Climate Dystopias of Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler - Meredith Minister (285)
12. Surfacing in the Wild: The Heroine’s Journey Through the Lens of the Biblical Midbar - Sarah E.G. Fein (307)
PART V. NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD (329)
13. Grace Be to You in the Presence of the Past: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Traumatic Dissociations in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and the Gospel of John - Sarah Emanuel (331)
14. Mirrors of Grace: Undoing Paul in Atwood’s Alias Grace - Jay Twomey (357)
15. The LongPen, Future Library, and Biblical Prophecy: Thinking Writing with Margaret Atwood - Rhiannon Graybill (383)
Arcane Energy: An Afterword on the Bible and The Testaments - Peter J. Sabo and Rhiannon Graybill (409)