About the Book
The Bible is hardly the first text that comes to mind when the general public considers gender, sex, and violence, yet within its first four chapters the Bible includes the creation of the first couple, thus gender designation; procreation, thus sex; and violence via the first murder. Pregnant Passion presents essays excavating some of the biblical stories that explore the dynamics, intersection, and relatedness of gender, human sexuality, and violence in the Bible, with themes spanning the realms of feasts and famines, betrayal and bloodshed, seduction and sensuality, power and politics, virtue and violence.
Contributors include Randall C. Bailey, Valerie C. Cooper, Nicole Duran, Barbara Green, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara A. Holmes, Susan E. Hylen, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Mignon R. Jacobs, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Madeline McClenney-Sadler, M. Fulgence Nyengele, Mary Donovan Turner, and Susan R. Holmes Winfield.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Table of Contents:
PART 1: PASSION, POWER, AND RELATIONAL CONFLICT
Love, Honor, and Violence: Socioconceptual Matrix in Genesis 34, Mignon R. Jacobs
Slingshots, Ships, and Personal Psychosis: Murder, Sexual Intrigue, and Power in the Lives of David and Othello, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
Who Wants to Marry a Persian King? Gender Games and Wars and the Book of Esther, Nicole Duran
For and With Whom Are We Reading? Who’s Pregnant and Who’s Passionate?, Randall C. Bailey
PART 2: LEGAL AND REGULATORY MATTERS
Murder S/He Wrote? A Cultural and Psychological Reading of 2 Samuel 11–12, Hyun Chul Paul Kim and M. Fulgence Nyengele
Cry Witch! The Embers Still Burn, Madeline McClenney-Sadler
Sex, Stones, and Power Games: A Woman Caught at the Intersection of Law and Religion (John 7:53–8:11), Barbara A. Holmes and Susan R. Holmes Winfield
Terrorization, Sexualization, Maternalization: Women’s Bodies on Trial, Gina Hens-Piazza
PART 3: TYPES, STEREOTYPES, AND ARCHETYPES
Some Place to Cry: Jephthah’s Daughter and the Double Dilemma of Black Women in America, Valerie C. Cooper
Daughter Zion: Giving Birth to Redemption, Mary Donovan Turner
The Power and Problem of Revelation 18: The Rhetorical Function of Gender, Susan E. Hylen
Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible— A Response to Part 3: Types, Stereotypes, and Archetypes, Barbara Green
About the Author :
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Ph.D. (1992) in Religion (Theology and Ethics), Baylor University, is Director of the Center for Women and Religion, and In Residence and Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
