Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)

Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan & Tina Pippin: Introduction......Page 12
1. Madeline McClenney-Sadler: For God’s Sake, Mommie, Help! The Mother-Daughter Dyad in Leviticus 18 and the Biblical Directive for Equity in the Family......Page 20
One Friday......Page 26
One Day Soon......Page 30
Works Cited......Page 32
2. Wil Gafney: Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth......Page 34
Ruth as Messianic Mother......Page 35
Rape-Marriage in the Scriptures of Israel......Page 37
Naomi’s Sexploitation of Ruth......Page 41
Orpah the True-Hearted Woman......Page 43
Contemporary Sex-Crimes......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 45
Works Cited......Page 46
3. Brian Britt: Sacrifice and the Displacement of Mothers in the Book of Ruth and Coetzee’s Disgrace......Page 48
The Book of Ruth......Page 50
Disgrace......Page 52
Displacement, Sacrifice, and Social Conflict......Page 54
Conclusion......Page 58
Works Cited......Page 59
Introduction: Writing Scripts for Mothers and Sons......Page 62
The Simpsons: Parody, the Sitcom, and the Traditional American Family......Page 63
Judges 13: Giving Birth to Another Gendered Script......Page 68
Cracking the Ideological Code: The Subversion of Form and the Maintenance of Culture......Page 74
Works Cited......Page 76
Introduction......Page 78
1. Delineating the Parameters of the Investigation......Page 79
2. Family Dynamics of a Mother-Leader (Bathsheba)......Page 82
3. A Mother’s Counterstrategy for Securing Her Son’s Reign......Page 86
4. Use of a Mother’s Infl uence and Discernment......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 92
Works Consulted......Page 93
6. Linda S. Shearing: Parturition (Childbirth), Pain, and Piety: Physicians and Genesis 3:16a......Page 96
Works Cited......Page 106
7. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan: Rethinking the “Virtuous” Woman (Proverbs 31): A Mother in Need of Holiday......Page 108
Perspective for Reading Proverbs 31......Page 109
Prototype: The Queen Mother/Warrior Woman of Proverbs 31......Page 110
Patriarchy Takes Center Stage......Page 113
Pathologies Codified......Page 118
Prescriptive Rereading of the Valiant Queen/Mother Warrior......Page 121
Works Cited......Page 122
Dubious Conceptions......Page 124
Erotic Desire and Desire for God......Page 129
“God the Ageless Romancer”: Jesus/God as Lover in Contemporary Evangelical Women’s Literature......Page 131
Conclusion......Page 137
Works Cited......Page 138
Introduction......Page 140
Establishing Mary’s Widowhood......Page 142
Jesus and His Mother: An Evaluation of Their Public Encounters......Page 144
African Patriarchy, HIV/AIDS, and African Widows......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 148
Works Cited......Page 149
10. Tina Pippin: Jesus as Fantasy Mother......Page 152
Mother Goose Comes Home to Roost......Page 153
The Early Bird Gets . . . Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome......Page 155
Birds Gone Wild......Page 159
A Fowl Apocalypse, or Jesus’ Coop d’Etat......Page 164
Works Cited......Page 166
Introduction......Page 168
On Being a Racial/Ethnic Outsider......Page 170
Trying to “Work” It Out......Page 172
To Wreck or Not To Wreck......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 176
Works Cited......Page 177
Introduction......Page 180
Scholarly Exegetical Assistance toward a Hermeneutic of the Marginalized......Page 182
Structuralism toward Hermeneutics of Testimony to Suspicion......Page 183
Narrative Schema......Page 185
Toward a Hermeneutic of the Marginalized......Page 188
Mother Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930)......Page 191
A Womanist Approach to a Hermeneutic of the Marginalized......Page 192
Works Cited......Page 195
13. Margaret Aymer: “Mother Knows Best”: The Story of Mother Paul Revisited......Page 198
Roman Motherhood: A Short Excursus......Page 199
Mother Paul......Page 202
Mother Goose: Fabulist Mother Paul......Page 206
Works Cited......Page 208
Responses......Page 210
14. Tat-siong Benny Liew: Learning to Know about Mothers Who “Know Best”......Page 212
Works Cited......Page 220
15. Alison Jasper: Reading Mothers and Motherhoodby the Godly Standards of Scripture......Page 222
Works Cited......Page 231
Contributors......Page 232
Index of Subjects......Page 236
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 238