Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
IntroductionPart I
Chapter 1: Obligation
Chapter 2: Love
Chapter 3: Power
Chapter 4: TeachingPart II
Chapter 5: The Other
Chapter 6: The Third
Chapter 7: The NeighborEpilogue
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Mara H. Benjamin is Chair and Irene Kaplan Leiwant Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is author of Rosenzweig's Bible: Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity.

Reviews

In this elegantly written, provocative, scholarly, and accessible work, Mara Benjamin contributes to the growing body of literature using maternal experience as a source for theology and religious ethics.

* Journal of the American Academy of Religion *

It is rare to find an academic text that is so creative, honest, and thoughtful, and uniquely contributes to multiple fields of inquiry-in this case, Jewish theology, feminist theory, and parenting. Bringing together a wide variety of resources in an artful display of academic research that is both intellectually stimulating and personally vulnerable, readers will find Benjamin's offering to be a continued reservoir for reflecting on what unites humanity perhaps more universally than anything else: that we have all been parented and most of us will also, at some point, embark on the risky, adventurous, deeply enriching journey of parenting.

* Journal of Jewish Identities *