The earthy nature of the Bible : fleshly readings of sex, masculinity, and carnality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boer, Roland, 1961-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Sex in the Bible. Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. > Song of Solomon > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

I. Song of Songs
The second coming : repetition and insatiable desire in the Song of Songs
A fleshly reading : masochism, ecocriticism, and the Song of Songs
Making it, literally : metaphor, economy, and the sensuality of nature
II. Masculinities
The patriarch's nuts : concerning the testicular logic of biblical Hebrew
Too many dicks at the writing desk, or how to organize a prophetic sausage fest
Of fine wine, incense, and spices : the unstable masculine hegemony of the books of Chronicles
Skin gods : circumcising the built male body
III. Paraphilias
Hooker hermeneutics : a reading of Avaren Ipsen's Sex working and the Bible
King Solomon meets Annie Sprinkle
Orientalist camp : the case of Allen Edwardes
Hittites, horses, and corpses : on bestiality and necrophilia in the Hebrew Bible.