The harlot by the side of the road
Subtitle: forbidden tales of the Bible
By: Jonathan Kirsch
Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780345418821
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Sex in the Bible; Violence in the Bible
Notes: Includes a reader's guide with questions and discussion topics (p. 381-394).

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