The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex And Desire

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Jennifer Wright Knust’s book Unprotected Text: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire focuses on the relationship between Christianity and sex. Knust’s focuses on supplying various interpretations from rabbis and scholars to debunk the shallow contemporary interpretations that only use the bibles messages and verses negatively. Knust is a pastor, New Testament scholar and mother, and often uses anecdotes historical events to support her reasoning for writing this book. In her introduction, Knust elaborates on why the bible is not a guide book. Young girls often call each other sluts to inflict harm on one another. Whether they are “actually” is never in question, because being deemed a slut can happen to anyone. Knust notes

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