Includes a reader's guide with questions and discussion topics (p. 381-394). Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
Contents:
1. Forbidden tales of the Bible -- 2. Lot and his daughters -- 3. Life against death: the sacred incest of Lot's daughters -- 4. The rape of Dinah -- 5. "See what a scourge is laid upon your hate": the strange affair of Dinah and Schechem -- 6. Tamar and Judah -- 7. The woman who willed herself into history: Tamar as the harlot by the side of the road -- 8. Zipporah and Moses -- 9. The bridegroom of blood: Zipporah as the goddess-rescuer of Moses -- 10. Jephthah and his daughter -- 11. A goddess of Israel: the forbidden cult of Jephtha's daughter -- 12. The traveler and his concubine -- 13. God and gyno-sadism: heroines and martyrs in the book of Judges -- 14. Tamar and Amnon -- 15. The rape of Tamar: the politics of love and hate in the court of King David --16. God's novel has suspense -- Appendix: Who really wrote the Bible?
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