Volume 30 Number 1, 2014

Editors’ Introduction

Judith Plaskow, Traci West

Sex in the Shadow of Rome: Sexual Violence and Theological Lament in Talmudic Disaster Tales

Julia Watts Belser

What Comes into a Woman and What Comes Out of a Woman: Feminist Textual Intervention and Mark 7:14-23

Michelle Fletcher

Bearded Woman, Female Christ: Gendered Transformations in the Legends and Cult of Saint Wilgefortis

Lewis Wallace

Marking the Body: Resemblance and Medieval Muslim Constructions of Paternity

Kathryn Kueny

Lording It over the Goddess: Water, Gender, and Human-Environmental Relations

Veronica Strang

Christ in the Desert

Cathy Strisik

In Both Hands, Courage

Lauren Camp

Where It Leads

Margo Berdeshevsky

When the Poisons Begin Doing Damage

Sawnie Morris

On a Recitation of Psalms for the Dead

Karen Ah-hwei Lee

Annunciation

Cathy Strisik

Beverly Wildung Harrison: Forefronting Women’s Moral Agency

Rebecca Todd Peters

Is “Pro-Choice” What We Really Mean to Say?

Marvin M. Ellison

Considering Social Policy on Abortion: Respecting Women as Moral Agents

Rebecca Todd Peters

From Politics to Theology: Responding to Roman Catholic Ecclesial Control of Reproductive Ethics

Kate M. Ott

The Cultural and Legal Reproduction of Poverty: Abortion Legistlation in Israel

Michal Raucher

(Out of) Places, Please! Demystifying Opposition to Procreative Choice in Afro-Diasporic Communities in the United States

Jennifer Leah

Women Crucified for the Sins of the Fathers: Censorship and the Crucifixion Motif in the Art of Rachael Romero

Adele Chynoweth

Notes on Contributors