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Unprotected texts, the Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire, Jennifer Wright Knust

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Unprotected texts, the Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire, Jennifer Wright Knust

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-334) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unprotected texts

Nature of contents

bibliography

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526084206

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Jennifer Wright Knust

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the Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire

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

Table Of 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..

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Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire

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