What The Bible Says About Sex (Newsweek Article)

zimovain

Atheist coming in peace and just posting this as I think some may find an interest and/or agree/disagree!! I'd like to hear if you find it factual or not.

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/06/what-the-bible-really-says-about-sex.html

What does the Bible really say about sex? Two new books written by university scholars for a popular audience try to answer this question. Infuriated by the dominance in the public sphere of conservative Christians who insist that the Bible incontrovertibly supports sex within the constraints of “traditional marriage,” these authors attempt to prove otherwise

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Fanny Cradock

I think I share the same skepticism as the Newsweek journalist.

Seaneh

Watch this, explains the meaning and context for the different versions of the word love in Song of songs, the word they are taking to mean lust in this article doesn't mean lust at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkhG_y_HVZY

prinz

“I’m tired,” writes Knust in Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire, “of watching those who are supposed to care about the Bible reduce its stories and teachings to slogans.” Her book comes out this month.

It's funny because reducing things to soundbites and slogans seems to be exactly what she is all about. Either it's not a great article or the books are poor. Judging from the article and taking that at face value there's nothing particularly groundbreaking or new in the texts tbh.

PDN

It really is facepalm time when "university scholars" resort to sensationalist tripe to sell books.

According to the Newsweek article: The girl returns his lust with lust. “My lover thrust his hand through the hole,” she says, “and my insides groaned because of him.”

What it forgets to mention is that the 'hole' is the latch of a door to a room in which the speaker has locked herself, and that the idiom "my insides (lit 'bowels') groaned for him" is a common Hebrew way of describing deep feelings.

I was going to insert the rolling eyes icon but it really is inadequate to express my feelings.

JonJoeDali

"Coogan, director of publications at Harvard University’s Semitic Museum, once trained as a Jesuit priest."

Ah yes, the bitterness...

Festus

Given that we have science from which we get the derivatives popular science, pseudo science and science fiction this tripe appears to fit well in the realm of theology fiction purporting to be based on popular theology while actually based on pseusdo theology.

There is a shorter term for this but I won't use it as non Catholics are known to have delicate sensibilities

Fanny Cradock

Festus, I'm not interested in your (now deleted) word plays. Either engage with the subject matter or don't post.