The Harlot by the side of the road : forbidden tales of the Bible /
Kirsch, Jonathan, 1949--
The Harlot by the side of the road : forbidden tales of the Bible / Jonathan Kirsch. - New York : Ballantine Books, c1997. - 378 p.; 24 cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Jephtah and his daughter A goddess of Israel: the forbidden cult of Jephtah's daughter The traveler and his concubine God and gyno-sadism: heroines and martyrs in the book of Judges Tamar and Ammon The rape of Tamar: the politics of love and hate in the court of King David God's novel has suspense Who really wrote the Bible
0345407490
Sex in the Bible
Violence in the Bible
Bible O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BS 1199.S45 / K57
The Harlot by the side of the road : forbidden tales of the Bible / Jonathan Kirsch. - New York : Ballantine Books, c1997. - 378 p.; 24 cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Jephtah and his daughter A goddess of Israel: the forbidden cult of Jephtah's daughter The traveler and his concubine God and gyno-sadism: heroines and martyrs in the book of Judges Tamar and Ammon The rape of Tamar: the politics of love and hate in the court of King David God's novel has suspense Who really wrote the Bible
0345407490
Sex in the Bible
Violence in the Bible
Bible O.T.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BS 1199.S45 / K57