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The Uncensored Bible : The Bawdy and Naughty Bits of the Good Book
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The Uncensored Bible
Author(s): John Kaltner, Steven McKenzie, Joel Kilpatrick
Review(s):
“If you can remember scouring your parents paperbacks in search of their spiciest pages, you can understand the impulse behind the recently-published book The Uncensored Bible.”
“Based on the best contemporary scholarship of the Bible—but funny as hell! The Uncensored Bible finally reveals what your Sunday School teacher was afraid to tell you or did not know.”
[The Uncensored Bible] makes for some interesting (not to mention steamy) reading. Euphemism, puns and sarcasm abound.
God’s Word on Sex.
Good-natured ribbing of the Good Book . . .scholars give scripture a ‘bawdy’ spin”
ISBN: 9780061238857
Author(s): John Kaltner, Steven McKenzie, Joel Kilpatrick
Strange but True Bible Facts
Did you know:
- that King David swore like a sailor?
- that the Book of Ecclesiastes encourages drinking, especially beer?
- that mandrakes were the biblical equivalent of Viagra®?
- that the law of Moses prescribes bikini waxing?
- that Joseph's "coat of many colors" might have actually been a dress?
- that Eve might have been created, not from Adam's rib, but from something a little lower down?
Discover all this, and more, in The Uncensored Bible.
Review(s):
“If you can remember scouring your parents paperbacks in search of their spiciest pages, you can understand the impulse behind the recently-published book The Uncensored Bible.”
“Based on the best contemporary scholarship of the Bible—but funny as hell! The Uncensored Bible finally reveals what your Sunday School teacher was afraid to tell you or did not know.”
[The Uncensored Bible] makes for some interesting (not to mention steamy) reading. Euphemism, puns and sarcasm abound.
God’s Word on Sex.
Good-natured ribbing of the Good Book . . .scholars give scripture a ‘bawdy’ spin”
ISBN: 9780061238857