TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirsch,Jonathan
TI  - The Harlot by the side of the road: forbidden tales of the Bible 
SN  - 0345407490
AV  - BS 1199.S45 K57
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Sex in the Bible
KW  - Violence in the Bible
KW  - Bible O.T
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
ER  -