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Unprotected texts : the Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire / Jennifer Wright Knust.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperOne, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 343 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0061725587
  • 9780061725586 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Bible's surprising contradictions about sex and desire
Subject(s):
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...
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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 220.8306 K74 Available 33111006500926
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 220.8306 K74 Available 33111006327577
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"An explosive, fascinating book that reveals how the Bible cannot be used as a rulebook when it comes to sex. A terrific read by a top scholar." --Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus



Boston University's cutting-edge religion scholar Jennifer Wright Knust reveals the Bible's contradictory messages about sex in this thoughtful, riveting, and timely reexploration of the letter of the gospels. In the tradition of Bart Erhman's Jesus Interrupted and John Shelby Spong's Sins of Scripture, Knust's Unprotected Texts liberates us from the pervasive moralizing--the fickle dos and don'ts--so often dictated by religious demagogues. Knust's powerful reading offers a return to the scripture, away from the mere slogans to which it is so often reduced.

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

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...

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.

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