Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction by Caroline Vander Stichele and Hugh S. Pyper
Part 1. Identifying the Strange Other
Inside Out: The Othered Child in the Bible for Children by Laurel Koepf
"All God's Children": Authority Figures, Places of Learning, and Society as the Other in Creationist Children's Bibles by Jaqueline S. du Toit
Looking into the Lions' Den: Otherness, Ideology, and Illustration in Children's Versions of Daniel 6 by Hugh S. Pyper
The Other in South African Children's Bibles: Politics and (Biblical) Systems of Othering by Jeremy Punt
Veggies, Women, and Other Strangers in Children's Bible DVDs: Toward the Creation of Feminist Bible Films by Susanne Scholz
Part 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 by Cynthia M. Rogers and Danna Nolan Fewell
The Word Became Visual Text: The Boy Jesus in Children's Bibles by Melody Briggs
Depiction of the Devil and the Education of Chinese Children: The Bible in the Taiping Trimetrical Classic by Archie Chi Chung Lee
Conflating Creation, Combining Christmas, and Ostracizing the Other by Mark Roncace
Part 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 by Emma England
Samson's Suicide and the Death of Three Thousand Others in Children's Bible Stories through Two Centuries by David M. Gunn
Translating the Bible into Pictures by Rubén R. Dupertuis
Samson's Hair and Delilah's Despair: Reanimating Judges 16 for Children by Caroline Vander Stichele
Responses
Children's Bibles Hot and Cold by Timothy Beal
The Otherness of Children's Bibles in Historical Perspective by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
What Does a Child Want? Reflections on Children's Bible Stories by J. Cheryl Exum
List of Contributors
Index of Biblical Citations
Index of Modern Authors and Artists