The harlot by the side of the road : forbidden tales of the Bible /

Discusses several stories in the Old Testament of the Bible which deal with sex, violence, and scandal which are frequently suppressed or mistranslated. Places each story within the political and social context of its time, explores why it was written down and added to the Bible, and why it was orig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kirsch, Jonathan, 1949- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Ballantine Books, [1997]
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. > Old Testament Bible. > O.T. > Criticism.. Sex in the Bible. Violence in the Bible. Sexualité dans la Bible. Violence dans la Bible. Sex in the Bible Violence in the Bible Oude Testament. Seks. Geweld. Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:

Forbidden tales of the Bible
Lot and his daughters
Life against death: the sacred incest of Lot's daughters
The rape of Dinah
"See what a scourge is laid upon your hate": the strange affair of Dinah and Shechem
Tamar and Judah
The woman who willed herself into history: Tamar as the harlot by the side of the road
Zipporah and Moses
The bridegroom of blood: Zipporah as the goddess-rescuer of Moses
Jephthah and his daughter
A goddess of Israel: the forbidden cult of Jephthah's daughter
The traveler and his concubine
God and gyno-sadism: heroines and martyrs in the Book of Judges
Tamar and Amnon
The rape of Tamar: the politics of love and hate in the court of King David
God's novel has suspense.