The first four chapters of the Bible narrate the first couple, birth, and murder. Recognizing the centrality of gender, sexuality, and violence in the biblical text and the modern world, Pregnant Passion explores their intersection, 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. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is Director of the Center for Women and Religion, and In Residence and Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
