Volume 23 Number 1, 2007

Editors’ Introduction

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Stephanie Mitchem

Introduction to JFSR Special Section:Celebrating Judith Plaskow’s Work

Donna Berman

A Prophetic Voice for Truth

Rebecca T. Alpert

To Speak Freely at the Intersection of the Personal, Institutional, and Scholarly

Emily Neill

Asking Hard Questions — Learning from the Wind

Mary C. Churchill

Erotic Justice: Authority, Resistance, and Transformation

Katie G. Cannon

Standing (Again) with Judith Plaskow: A Selective Reading of Her Essays

Susan Shapiro

Community and Ambiguity: A Response from a Companion in the Journey

Carol P. Christ

The Coming of Lilith: A Response

Judith Plaskow

Pharoah’s Daughter/King Solomon’s Wife: Fragments from Her Diaries

Yerra Sugarman

Pharoah’s Daughter/King Solomon’s Wife: A Letter Home

Yerra Sugarman

From King Solomon’s Journal: Fragment of an Unsent Letter (Date Unknown)

Yerra Sugarman

Besotted with Jesus

Susan McCaslin

Mary Mother

Susan McCaslin

The Gift of Tongues

Jeannine Hall Gailey

The Husband Asks her

Jeannine Hall Gailey

The Restorative Power of Sound: A Case for Communal Catharsis in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Roxanne R. Reed

Escapism or Engagement? Plotinus and Feminism

E. Jane Cooper

Mother Love and Mother Grief: South Asian Buddhist Variations on a Theme

Reiko Ohnuma

Gathering Wo/men in the Postcolonial Pacific Region

Kathleen McPhillips

Feminist Applications of Buddhist Thought

Kay Koppedrayer