Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and Their Children
Who
are the mothers in the biblical text? What do they do? What kinds of
power do have? Issues of identity, authority, violence, gender,
sexuality, race, ethnicity, sexual exploitation and rape-marriage,
murder, and relation to God have haunted the characters and
representations of motherhood from Eve to Mary and beyond. For better or
for worse, these images speak potent messages even today. To explore
biblical mothers and their relationships with their daughters and sons,
the contributors to this volume participate in a comparative analysis
between biblical mothers and mothers in popular media, history,
literature, and the arts. The diversity of methods they employ prompts a
rich discussion on the deconstruction of motherhood, offering new ways
of envisioning both biblical and contemporary motherhood.
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