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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction: Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommy Dearest : mother-daughter, mother-son relationships in the Bible / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin -- For God's sake, mommy, help! : the mother-daughter dyad in Leviticus 18 and the biblical directive for equity in the family / Madeline McClenney-Sadler -- Mother knows best : messianic surrogacy and sexploitation in Ruth / Wil Gafney -- Sacrifice and the displacement of mothers in the book of Ruth and Coetzee's disgrace / Brian Britt -- Of virtue and of eating shorts : breaking down the configuration of faithful mother and wayward son in Judges and the Simpsons / Frank M. Yamada -- Mothering a leader : 1 Kings 1-2's portrayal of Bathsheba as model of relational and functional identities / Mignon R. Jacobs -- Parturition (childbirth), pain, and piety : physicians and Genesis 3:16a / Linda S. Schering -- Rethinking the "virtuous" woman (Proverbs 31) : a mother in need of holiday / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Reading the religious romance : sexuality, spirituality, and motherhood in the Bible and today / Mark Roncace and Deborah Whitehead -- Jesus and his mother : an analysis of their public relationship as a paradigm for African women (widows) who must circumvent traditional authority in order to thrive in society / Andrew M. Mbuvi -- Jesus as fantasy mother / Tina Pippin -- BMW : biblical mother working/wrecking, Black mother working/wrecking / Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder -- Motherhood archetype : mothers of justice / Brenda Wallace -- "Mother knows best" : the story of mother Paul revisited / Margaret Aymer -- Responses -- Learning to know about mothers who "know best" / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Reading mothers and motherhood by the godly standards of Scripture / Alison Jasper

Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A; Pippin, Tina, 1956-

United States, United States of America

New Edition, 2009

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Who are the mothers in the biblical text? What do they do? What kinds of power do they have? Issues of identity, authority, violence, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, sexual exploitation and rape-marriage, murder, and relation to God have haunted the characters and representations of motherhood from Eve to Mary and beyond. For better or for worse, these images speak potent messages even today. To explore biblical mothers and their relationships with their daughters and sons, the contributors to this volume participate in a comparative analysis between biblical mothers and mothers in popular media, history, literature, and the arts. The diversity of methods they employ prompts a rich discussion on the deconstruction of motherhood, offering new ways of envisioning both biblical and contemporary motherhood. The contributors are Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin, Madeline McClenney-Sadler, Wil Gafney, Brian Britt, Frank M. Yamada, Mignon R. Jacobs, Linda S. Schering, Mark Roncace and Deborah Whitehead, Andrew M. Mbuvi, Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Brenda Wallace, Margaret Aymer, Tat-siong Benny Liew, and Alison Jasper."--Publisher description

2023-06-28