When Did We See You Naked?
Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse
Edited by
Jayme R. Reaves, David Tombs and Rocío Figueroa
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‘come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.’
excerpt from ‘won’t you celebrate with me?’ by Lucille Clifton,
from The Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)
For those who have found a way to survive, in life or in death,
and for those who bear witness to their stories
Contents
Foreword by the Rt Revd Dr Eleanor Sanderson
Introduction: Acknowledging Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse
Jayme R. Reaves and David Tombs
Part 1: Biblical and Textual Studies
1. Crucifixion and Sexual Abuse
David Tombs
2. Covering Up Sexual Abuse: An Ecclesial Tendency from the Earliest Years of the Jesus Movement?
Michael Trainor
Mitzi J. Smith
4. Family Resemblance: Reading Post-Crucifixion Encounters as Community Responses to Sexual Violence
Monica C. Poole
5. Knowing Christ Crucified (1 Corinthians 2.2): Cross, Humiliation and Humility
Jeremy Punt
Gerald O. West
Pádraig Ó Tuama
Part 3: Parsing Culture, Context and Perspectives
Carlton Turner
9. ‘Not pictured’: What Veronica Mars Can Teach Us about the Crucifixion
Rachel Starr
10. Jesus is a Survivor: Sexual Violence and Stigma within Faith Communities
Elisabet le Roux
11. Why Do We See Him Naked? Politicized, Spiritualized and Sexualized Gazes at Violence
R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Srdjan Sremac and Teguh Wijaya Mulya
12. The Crucified Christa: A Re-evaluation
Nicola Slee
13. Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse: A Womanist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Crucifixion
Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe
Part 4: Sexual Abuse, Trauma and the Personal
14. Jesus: A Critical Companion in the Journey to Moving on from Sexual Abuse
Beth R. Crisp
15. Surviving Trauma at the Foot of the Cross
Karen O’Donnell
Shanell T. Smith
17. Seeing His Innocence, I See My Innocence
Rocío Figueroa and David Tombs