Pregnant passion : gender, sex, and violence in the Bible / edited by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan.

Atlanta, GA : Society of Biblical Literature, [2003], ©2003.

viii, 250 pages ; 23 cm.

pt. 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 -- pt. 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, Susan R. Holmes Winfield -- Terrorization, sexualization, maternalization: women's bodies on trial / Gina Hens-Piazza -- pt. 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-247).