Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Contributor Bios 1. Introduction: The Place of Women, Children, and Violence in the Hebrew Bible, Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, John W. Martens PART 1 Violence against (Resilient) Children 2. A Resilient Reading of the Young Miriam in Exodus 2, Paba Nidhani De Andrado 3. The Perils of Prophetic Proximity: Violence against Children in the Elisha Narratives, M. L. Case PART 2 Women and Children in the Context of War 4. A Whole Burnt Offering to the LORD? Contextualizing Ritual Violence against Women and Children in the Deuteronomistic History and the Punishment of Achan, Anthony P.

SooHoo, SJ 5. Scorched Birth Tactics: The Eighth-Century Prophets and Rhetoric of Violence against Children in War, Jason A. Riley 6. Sons (and a Daughter) as Scary Semantic Signs: Naming Children in Isaiah 7-8 and Hosea 1 as Acts of Violence, Julie Faith Parker PART 3 Texts of Violence and Contemporary Readership 7. The Lost and Found Children of Daughter Zion in Deutero-Isaiah, Angela Sawyer 8. "Wife of Promiscuity and Children of Promiscuity": The Legitimation and Normalization of Sexual Violence and Illegitimacy Disability through Hosea's Marriage Metaphor!, Alice Yafeh-Deigh 9. Performing Grief for the "Ungrievable": A Re-reading of Ezekiel 16 with The Statue of Peace, Jina Kang.