God and Sex What the Bible Really Says

Name: God and Sex What the Bible Really Says
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ISBN: 9780446545266

ISBN-10: 0446545260

ISBN-13: 9780446545266

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Coogan

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Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 11/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.27" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction



To Know in the Biblical Sense: Speaking of Sex



He Will Rule over You: The Status of Women


Widows


Virginity


Jephthah's Virgin Daughter


Celibacy as an Ideal


The Virgin Mary


Women's Public Roles


Women's Domestic Roles



As It Was in the Beginning?: Marriage and Divorce


Abortion


Arranged Marriages


Endogamy and Exogamy


Polygamy


Divorce



Thou Shalt Not: Forbidden Sexual Relationships in the Bible


Adultery


David and Bathsheba


Sex with Family Members


Tamar


Lot's Daughters


Reuben


Other Prohibited Sexual Relationships


Same-Sex Relationships in the Bible


David and Jonathan


Sodom and Sodomy


Prohibitions of Homoerotic Relations


Jesus and Same-Sex Relationships



Folly in Israel: Rape and Prostitution


Dinah


Tamar


Prostitution



Fire in the Divine Loins: God's Wives in Myth and Metaphor


Myth and Metaphor


Yahweh's Wives in Myth


Polytheism in Ancient Israel


Yahweh's Children


The Goddess Wisdom


Yahweh's Wives in Metaphor


Problems with the Metaphor


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Bibliography


Notes


Index