Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest : biblical mothers and their children / edited by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Tina Pippin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.

Pippin, Tina, 1956-

Series:

Semeia studies ; no. 61.

Semeia studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers in the Bible.

Motherhood in popular culture.

Physical Description:

x, 232 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Contents:

Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommy Dearest : biblical mothers and their children / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Tina Pippin

For God's sake, Mommie, 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 : Bathsheba's relational and functional identities / Mignon R. Jacobs

Parturition (childbirth), pain, and piety : physicians and Genesis 3:16a / Linda S. Schearing

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

Learning to know about mothers who "know best" / Tat-siong Benny Liew

Reading mothers and motherhood by the godly standards of Scripture / Alison Jasper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004169272

900416927X

OCLC:

435800463