Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest
Biblical Mothers and their Children
Biographical note
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is Professor of Theology and Women’s Studies at Shaw University Divinity School. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Soul Pearls: Worship Resources for the Black Church and Violence and Theology (both from Abingdon) and Refiner’s Fire—A Religious Engagement with Violence (Fortress), and does consulting in women’s studies, domestic and sexual violence, and religion.
Tina Pippin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Agnes Scott College. She is the author of Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image (Routledge). An activist educator, she is a member of the Bible and Culture Collective that published The Postmodern Bible (Yale University Press).
Tina Pippin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Agnes Scott College. She is the author of Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image (Routledge). An activist educator, she is a member of the Bible and Culture Collective that published The Postmodern Bible (Yale University Press).
Table of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction:
Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin
1. For God’s Sake, Mommie, Help! The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Leviticus and the Biblical Directive for Equity in the Family
Madeline McClenney-Sadler
2. Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth
Wil Gafney
3. Sacrifice and the Displacement of Mothers in the Book of Ruth and Coetzee’s Disgrace
Brian Britt
4. Of Virtue and of Eating Shorts: Breaking Down the Configuration of Faithful Mother and Wayward Son in Judges and The Simpsons
Frank M. Yamada
5. Mothering a Leader: Bathsheba’s Relational and Functional Identities
Mignon R. Jacobs
6. Parturition (Childbirth), Pain, and Piety: Physicians and Genesis 3:16a
Linda S. Shearing
7. Rethinking the “Virtuous” Woman (Proverbs 31): A Mother in Need of Holiday
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
8. Reading the Religious Romance: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Motherhood in the Bible and Today
Mark Roncace and Deborah Whitehead
9. 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
10. Jesus as Fantasy Mother
Tina Pippin
11. BMW: Biblical Mother Working/Wrecking, Black Mother Working/Wrecking
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder
12. Motherhood Archetype: Mothers of Justice
Brenda Wallace
13. “Mother Knows Best”: The Story of Mother Paul Revisited
Margaret Aymer
Responses
14. Learning to Know about Mothers Who “Know Best”
Tat-siong Benny Liew
15. Reading Mothers and Motherhood by the Godly Standards of Scripture
Alison Jasper
Contributors
Index of Subjects
Index of Ancient Sources
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction:
Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin
1. For God’s Sake, Mommie, Help! The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Leviticus and the Biblical Directive for Equity in the Family
Madeline McClenney-Sadler
2. Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth
Wil Gafney
3. Sacrifice and the Displacement of Mothers in the Book of Ruth and Coetzee’s Disgrace
Brian Britt
4. Of Virtue and of Eating Shorts: Breaking Down the Configuration of Faithful Mother and Wayward Son in Judges and The Simpsons
Frank M. Yamada
5. Mothering a Leader: Bathsheba’s Relational and Functional Identities
Mignon R. Jacobs
6. Parturition (Childbirth), Pain, and Piety: Physicians and Genesis 3:16a
Linda S. Shearing
7. Rethinking the “Virtuous” Woman (Proverbs 31): A Mother in Need of Holiday
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
8. Reading the Religious Romance: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Motherhood in the Bible and Today
Mark Roncace and Deborah Whitehead
9. 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
10. Jesus as Fantasy Mother
Tina Pippin
11. BMW: Biblical Mother Working/Wrecking, Black Mother Working/Wrecking
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder
12. Motherhood Archetype: Mothers of Justice
Brenda Wallace
13. “Mother Knows Best”: The Story of Mother Paul Revisited
Margaret Aymer
Responses
14. Learning to Know about Mothers Who “Know Best”
Tat-siong Benny Liew
15. Reading Mothers and Motherhood by the Godly Standards of Scripture
Alison Jasper
Contributors
Index of Subjects
Index of Ancient Sources
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