Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible

Table of contents

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• Pregnant Passion i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Abbreviations vii
• Introduction—pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible 1
• Part 1 - Passion, Power, and Relational Conflict 9
• Love, Honor, and Violence: Socioconceptual Matrix in Genesis 34 11
• Slingshots, Ships, and Personal Psychosis: Murder, Sexual Intrigue, and Power in the Lives of David and Othello 37
• Who Wants to Marry a Persian King? Gender Games and Wars and the Book of Esther 71
• For and with Whom Are We Reading? Who's Pregnant and Who's Passionate? 85
• Part 2 - Legal and Regulatory Matters 93
• Murder S/He Wrote? a Cultural and Psychological Reading of 2 Samuel 11–12 95
• Cry Witch! the Embers Still Burn 117
• Sex, Stones, and Power Games: A Woman Caught at the Intersection of Law and Religion (John 7 143
• Terrorization, Sexualization, Maternalization: Women's Bodies on Trial 163
• Part 3 - Types, Stereotypes, and Archetypes 179

• Pregnant Passion i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Abbreviations vii
• Introduction—pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible 1
• Part 1 - Passion, Power, and Relational Conflict 9
• Love, Honor, and Violence: Socioconceptual Matrix in Genesis 34 11
• Slingshots, Ships, and Personal Psychosis: Murder, Sexual Intrigue, and Power in the Lives of David and Othello 37
• Who Wants to Marry a Persian King? Gender Games and Wars and the Book of Esther 71
• For and with Whom Are We Reading? Who's Pregnant and Who's Passionate? 85
• Part 2 - Legal and Regulatory Matters 93
• Murder S/He Wrote? a Cultural and Psychological Reading of 2 Samuel 11–12 95
• Cry Witch! the Embers Still Burn 117
• Sex, Stones, and Power Games: A Woman Caught at the Intersection of Law and Religion (John 7 143
• Terrorization, Sexualization, Maternalization: Women's Bodies on Trial 163
• Part 3 - Types, Stereotypes, and Archetypes 179
• Some Place to Cry: Jephthah's Daughter and the Double Dilemma of Black Women in America 181
• Daughter Zion: Giving Birth to Redemption 193
• The Power and Problem of Revelation 18: The Rhetorical Function of Gender 205
• Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible—a Response to Part 3 221
• Works Consulted 235
• Contributors 248