Includes bibliographical references.

Pregnant passion: gender, sex, and violence in the Bible -- Part 1: Passion, power, and relational conflict -- Love, honor, and violence: socio conceptual Matrix in Genesis -- Slingshots, ships and personal psychosis: murder, sexual intrigue, and power in the lives of David and Othello -- Who wants to marry a Persian King? Gender games and wars and the book of Esther -- For and with whom are we reading? who's pregnant and who's passionate? -- Part 2: Legal and regulatory matters -- Murder s/he wrote? a cultural and psychological reading of 2 Samuel 11- 12 -- Cry witch! the embers still burn -- Sex, stones, and power games: a woman caught at the intersection of law and religion -- Terrorization, sexualization, maternalization: women's bodies on trial -- Part 3: Types, Stereotypes, and archetypes -- Some place to cry: Jephthah's daughter and the double dilemma of black women in America -- Daughter Zion: giving birth to redemption -- The power and the problem of Revelation 18: The rhetorical function of gender -- Pregnant passion: gender, sex, and violence in the Bible-a response to Part 3