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Sto caricando le informazioni... The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures (1985)di Ben Edward Akerley
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Lewd! Bizarre! Pornographic! Found in nearly every home, within reach of underage children, is a book plump with lecherous scenes normally confined to the sin-bins marked Adults Only.' That's right, we're talking about the Bible, a book filled with incest, rape, adultery, prostitution, bestiality and much more of the nasty stuff. First published in 1985 to national nausea, this expanded edition of 'The X-Rated Bible' excerpts and explains many of the weird, dirty stories found in the Holy Writ and, of course, saves you the trouble of searching them out.' Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This second edition of The X-Rated Bible provides sixty chapters of Bible badness, divided into seventeen broad topics. Akerley's usual style is to provide glosses on the Bible text, and follow it up with the direct quotation from scripture. With very few exceptions, he quotes the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. Other than discussing the likelihood that James I of England was gay (xxii), he provides no background on the context of the KJV translation, the motives in its production, its difference from other versions, or the locus that it occupies in English literature.
I was especially eager to read Part VIII ("Prostitution and Phallic Worship"), but was fairly nonplussed by it. Akerley addresses no texts that were not already familiar to me in this context. He also accepts the typical Christian assumption that the Jahwist cult was only and always in opposition to phallic worship, instead of having its own phallicist root. He doesn't even mention the indigenous Hebrew goddess Asherah.
This tendency to take the most conventional Christian reading as a strawman for the meaning of a Bible passage is evident throughout The X-Rated Bible. Going even further, Akerley repeatedly gloats over the contradiction between the alleged omnipotence and omnibenevolence of God, a conundrum that is actually extrinsic to the Bible, having developed in the medieval philosophies of monotheism. (There are certainly foreshadowings of it in the book of Job, but Akerley doesn't go there, because a full discussion of theodicy would distract from his central topic!) The result of this capitulation to Christian premises is a book that does a somewhat better job of lambasting Christianity than it does of exploring the Bible. Still, as a "survey" it's not bad, and it does provide a convenient digest of Bible passages that will repay study far beyond the discussion that Akerley affords them.