Sex in the Bible (2006 Ellens), book

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Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration (2006) is a book by J. Harold Ellens.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction: Psychology and spirituality of sex
  • 2. Bible, sex, and moralization
  • 3. God's sexuality: deity, gender, and sexual design in creation
  • 4. Falling in and out of love
  • 5. Making love: celebrating sex
  • 6. Making babies: purposes of sex
  • 7. Sin and seduction: Adam, Eve, and sex problems
  • 8. Old Testament sex laws: women as property versus women as agents of their destiny
  • 9. Adultery: sex and marriage
  • 10. Monogamy: models and meanings
  • 11. Homosexuality: what does the Bible say in the Old Testament?
  • 12. Homosexuality: what does the Bible say in the New Testament?
  • 13. Bad sex: incest, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, rape, and sodomy
  • 14. Sex and love: the real thing
  • 15. Sex and shalom: what God had in mind

External links

  • [ Google Books]