Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

INTRODELEUZE (who and why?)
Deleuze in Theory
The Box and the Machine
The Deleuze Affect
ELand the Bible?

1. TEXT (the Bible without organs)
Part I: At the Bible Study with Foucault and Deleuze
What Is a Biblical Author?
Knowledge, Power, Desire

Part II: At the Bible Study with Deleuze and Guattari
In Flux, in Assemblage
The Book of Order-Words
A Bible That Expresses Everything While Communicating Nothing
How Do You Make Yourself a Bible without Organs?

2. BODY (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway)
Part I: The Eclipse of the Ancient Body
Bodies Discoursed and Performed
Bodies in a Noumenal Night

Part II: The Ponderous Weight of the Incorporeal Synoptic Body
Nonrepresenting the Synoptic Body
What Is a Body When It Is Incorporeal?
The Mundane Miracle of Reading (Everywhere Enacted Daily)

3. SEX (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses)
Part I: The Deleuzian Queer
Desiring and Naming
The Proletariat of Eros (Producing the Product Society Cannot Want)

Part II: Queer Mark
The Coming, and Becoming, of Christ
The Crucified Body without Organs
The Risen Body without Organs

4. RACE (Jesus and the white faciality machine)
Part I: The Matter of Race
White Light
Dark Matter, I
Jesus in Jackboots
Dark Matter, II
Is Race Structured Like a Language?

Part II: Race and Face
Assembling Race
Facing Race
Defacing Race

5. POLITICS (beastly boasts, apocalyptic affects)
Unmethodological Prelude
Tweets from the Bottomless Abyss
Larval Fascisms, Insect Apocalypses
Horrible Hope
Post-Beast Postscript

Index

About the Author

Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies Theological School, Drew University. He is author or editor, co-author or co-editor, of around thirty books, including the monographs Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology (2014) and Gospel Jesuses and Other Nonhumans: Biblical Criticism Post-poststructuralism (2017), and the collection (co-edited with Karen Bray)
Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies (2019).

Reviews

Arguably the most prominent and prolific critic when it comes to reading the Bible with theory, Moore has done it again with what he calls 'post-poststructuralist' theory.
*Tat-siong Benny Liew*

Yet another prodigy from Moore's cabinet of wonders.
*A K M Adam*

Stephen D. Moore produces an impressively generative approach to Deleuze (and Guattari) and affect.
*Gregory J. Seigworth*

The Bible after Deleuze contributes to this growing literature by reading the New Testament through the lens of Deleuzian theory.
*Brent Adkins, The Heythrop Journal*

I will read this book again in order to continue to learn and be challenged. One cannot ask for more.
*John Reader, Wootton, Oxfordshire, and William Temple Foundation, Rochdale, Modern Believing*