The Good Book

I'm currently reading
The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible
by Jonathan Kirsch and boy is it fascinating. Only one of the stories was unfamiliar to me, that being the strange account of Zipporah and the foreskin. In my religious gradeschool, we were assigned to read the Bible on our own quite frequently. Kids being kids, we managed to find and share with each other the "dirty" stories, and read them with great enthusiasm. I'm not sure if our teachers ever realized that aspect of our studies.

Kirsch has some very interesting ideas, which will merit further comment when I finish the book.

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