Category Archives: 1 Corinthians 11.10
Strange Flesh: Knust’s Unprotected Texts
Bob Cornwall (Ponderings on a Faith Journey) provides a review of Jennifer Wright Knust’s Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire (San Francisco: Harper One, 2011). He comments on Genesis 19; Genesis 6.1-4; and the inner-biblical reception of those texts … Continue reading
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The Women Seduce the Angels: Genesis 6.1-4 in Two Christian Versions – T. Reuben and The Almighty Bible
The curious incident which is narrated in Genesis 6.1-4 makes ‘the sons of God’ responsible for making off with some eye-catchingly beautiful human women, and having some (implicitly) transgressive divine-human sex: And the sons of god saw that the daughters of man were good. And … Continue reading
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