Pregnant Passion

The Bible is hardly the first text that comes to mind when the general public considers gender sex and violence yet within its first four chapters the Bible includes the creation of the first couple thus gender designation; procreation thus sex; and violence via the first murder. Pregnant Passion presents essays excavating some of the biblical stories that explore the dynamics intersection and relatedness of gender human sexuality and violence in the Bible with themes spanning the realms of feasts and famines betrayal and bloodshed seduction and sensuality power and politics virtue and violence. Contributors include Randall C. Bailey Valerie C. Cooper Nicole Duran Barbara Green Gina Hens-Piazza Barbara A. Holmes Susan E. Hylen Hyun Chul Paul Kim Mignon R. Jacobs Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Madeline McClenney-Sadler M. Fulgence Nyengele Mary Donovan Turner and Susan R. Holmes Winfield. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (sbl-site.org)