Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- RumInations -- First Waves -- Islandedness, Paul, and John of Patmos -- Building on Sand -- Island-Marking Texts -- Celebrating Hybridity in Island Bibles -- Creolizing Hermeneutics -- Gaelic Psalmody and a Theology of Place -- Islands in the Sun -- The Island of Tyre -- Sea-ing Ruth with Joseph's Mistress -- Second Waves -- Sand, Surf, and Scriptures -- Islandedness, Translation, and Creolization -- The Wrong Kind of Island? -- Third Waves -- Third Wave Reading -- Thinking on Islands -- Writing from Another "Room-in-ating" Place -- Contributors -- Index of Ancient Texts -- Index of Modern Authors.