Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Identifying the strange other.
  • Inside out: the othered child in the Bible for children / Laurel Koepf
  • "All God's children": authority figures, places of learning, and society as the other in creationist children's Bibles / Jaqueline S. du Toit
  • Looking into the lions' den: otherness, ideology, and illustration in children's versions of Daniel 6 / Hugh S. Pyper
  • The other in South African children's Bibles: politics and (biblical) systems of othering / Jeremy Punt
  • Veggies, women, and other strangers in children's Bible DVDs: toward the creation of feminist Bible films / Susanne Scholz
  • pt. 2. Learning how to deal with the other.
  • No greater love: Jonathan and his friendship with David in text, tradition, and contemporary children's literature / Cynthia M. Rogers and Danna Nolan Fewell
  • The word became visual text: the boy Jesus in children's Bibles / Melody Briggs
  • Depiction of the devil and the education of Chinese children: the Bible in the Taiping Trimetrical classic / Archie Chi Chung Lee
  • Conflating creation, combining Christmas, and ostracizing the other / Mark Roncace
  • pt. 3. Destroying the other.
  • "The water's round my shoulders, and I'm--GLUG! GLUG! GLUG!": God's destruction of humanity in the flood story for children / Emma England
  • Samson's suicide and the death of three thousand others in children's Bible stories through two centuries / David M. Gunn
  • Translating the Bible into pictures / Rubén R. Dupertuis
  • Samson's hair and Delilah's despair: reanimating Judges 16 for children / Caroline Vander Stichele
  • Responses.
  • Children's Bibles hot and cold / Timothy Beal
  • The otherness of children's Bibles in historical perspective / Ruth B. Bottigheimer
  • What does a child want?: reflections on children's Bible stories / J. Cheryl Exum.