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Unprotected texts : the Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire / Jennifer Wright Knust.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bible.
- Sex in the Bible.
- Sex--Biblical teaching.
- Sex.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperOne, [2011]
- Summary:
- Arguing that the Bible cannot serve as a rulebook for sexual morality, examines the text and its historic interpretations and highlights the book's many contradictory messages regarding sex, marriage, adultery, and divorce.
- Contents:
- Introduction : why the Bible is not a sexual guidebook
- The Bible and the joy of sex : desire in and out of control
- Biblical marriage : there is no single view on marriage presented in the Bible
- The evil impulse : disordered and ordered desire
- Sexual politics : God's wife, cursing the Canaanites, and biblical sex crimes
- Strange flesh : the sons of God and the daughters of men
- Bodily parts : circumcision, semen, and the products of a woman's womb
- So I hear you have five husbands...
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780061725586
- 0061725587
- OCLC:
- 526084206
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