The Harlot by The Side of The Road: Forbidden Tales of The Bible (54 page)

9.
Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Rahab (Person),” in ABD, vol. 5, 611.

10.
Murray L. Newman, “Rahab and the Conquest,” in
Understanding the Word
, ed. James T. Butler, Edgar W. Conrad, and Ben C. Ollenburger (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1985), 180, fn. 34, citing John L. McKenzie,
The World of the Judges
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966), 48.

11.
Jack Miles,
God: A Biography
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), 125. “The word
kabod
can have a spiritual meaning—its usual translation is ‘glory’—but also a visceral one: It is the standard word for ‘liver.’ According to the eminent linguist and Bible
scholar Marvin H. Pope,
kabod
probably alludes to male genitalia at Job 29:20, where ‘glory’ is still the correct translation, even though genitalia are to be understood.”

12.
Roland E. Murphy, “Song of Songs, Book of,” in ABD, vol. 6, 153-54.

13.
Sid Z. Leiman, “The Canonization of Hebrew Scripture,”
Transactions
47 (February 1976): 72.

14.
Murphy, ABD, vol. 6, 153-54.

15.
Julian Pitt-Rivers,
The Fate of Shechem, or The Politics of Sex
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 156.

16.
Pitt-Rivers, 146.

17.
Pitt-Rivers, 126.

18.
“Potiphar,”
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
, copyright 1969 The Really Useful Group plc (PRS). Rights in the United States administered by Colgems-EMI Music, Inc. (ASCAP).

19.
Mordechai Richler,
St. Urbain’s Horseman
(New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972), 242-43.

20.
Michael Ventura, “Letters at 3 A.M.,”
LA Village View
(December 24-30, 1993): 5.

21.
Reynolds Price,
A Palpable God
(San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985), 3.

1.
Larry R. Helyer, “The Separation of Abraham and Lot,”
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
26 (June 1983): 77.

2.
Louis Ginzberg,
The Legends of the Jews
, 7 vols. (Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1909-1938), vol. 5, 240, n. 171. See also T. Desmond Alexander, “Lot’s Hospitality,”
Journal of Biblical Literature
104, no. 2 (June 1985): 289-91.

3.
Haim Z’ew Hirschberg, “Lot,” in
Encyclopaedia Judaica
, 7 vols. (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House), vol. 11, 507.

4.
Ginzberg, vol. 5, 243, n. 188.

5.
“Minyan” in
EJ
, vol. 12, 67.

6.
Ginzberg, vol. 1, 252.

7.
George W. Coats, “Lot,” in
Understanding the Word
, ed. James T. Butler, Edgar W. Conrad, and Ben C. Ollenburger (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1985), 120.

8.
Sharon Pace Jeansonne, “The Characterization of Lot in Genesis,”
Biblical Theology Bulletin
18, no. 4 (October 1988): 123, citing Bruce Vawter,
On Genesis: A New Reading
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), 235-36.

9.
Jeansonne, 126.

10.
Jeansonne, 123, citing Claus Westermann, John Skinner, and Bruce Vawter.

11.
Coats, 129.

12.
J. H. Hertz, ed.,
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs
, 2d ed. (London: Soncino Press, 1981), 67, n. 8.

13.
Raphael Patai,
The Arab Mind
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976), 85-86.

14.
Patai, 84, 133-135.

15.
R. E. Clements, “The Relation of Children to the People of God in the Old Testament,”
Baptist Quarterly
11, no. 5 (January 1966): 196. See also Neh. 5:1–5, 2 Kings 4:1–7, and Exod. 21:7–8.

16.
Roland de Vaux,
Ancient Israel
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), vol. 1, 41.

17.
Jeansonne, 124, citing John Skinner,
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis
(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1930), 307.

18.
Gerhard von Rad,
Genesis
, rev. ed. (London: S. C. M. Press, Ltd., 1972), 218.

19.
L. Hicks, “Lot,” in
Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible
(New York: Abingdon Press, 1962), vol. K-L, 163.

20.
Jeansonne, 127, citing Gen. 34 (see chapter four), Gen. 38 (see chapter six), Judg. 19 (see chapter twelve), and 2 Sam. 13 (see chapter fourteen).

21.
C. J. H. Wright, “Family,” in
The Anchor Bible Dictionary
, 6 vols., ed. David Noel Freedman (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 2, 767-68. “[T]here is much in the [Old Testament) to indicate that love, joy, care and honor were to be found in the Israelite home.”

22.
Jeansonne, 124.

23.
Coats, 123-24.

24.
Warren Kliewer, “The Daughters of Lot,”
ILIFF Review
25, no. 1 (winter 1968): 27.

25.
Alexander, 291.

26.
Gerald A. Larue,
Sex and the Bible
(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983), 91.

27.
Larue, 91-92.

28.
Edmund Leach, “Why Did Moses Have a Sister?” in
Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth
, ed. Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock (Cambridge [England] and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 59-60, fn. 35.

29.
Larue, 95.

30.
Larue, 93.

31.
E. A. Speiser, tr., intro., and notes,
Genesis
, Anchor Bible (Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1986), 91-93.

32.
Von Rad, 167.

33.
Julian Pitt-Rivers,
The Fate of Shechem, or The Politics of Sex
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 151-152, citing Speiser, de Vaux, and von Rad.

34.
Speiser, 92-93.

35.
Speiser, 93.

36.
Anson Rainey, “Concubine,” in
EJ
, vol. 5, 862.

37.
Ginzberg, vol. 1, 264.

38.
Speiser, 155, n. 9.

39.
Coats, 123.

40.
Larue, 99. “Expulsion because of jealousy seems too harsh…. [E]xpulsion because of molestation seems more natural.”

41.
von Rad, 217.

42.
von Rad, 217.

43.
Carol A. Newsom, “Angels,” in ABD, vol. 1, 249.

44.
Speiser, 139, n. 11.

45.
Bernard J. Bamberger, “Angels and Angelology,” in
EJ
vol. 2, 957.

46.
Karen Armstrong,
Jerusalem
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 27-28.

47.
Joseph Blenkinsopp, “Abraham and the Righteous of Sodom,”
Journal of Jewish Studies
33, nos. 1-2 (spring-autumn 1982): 119, n. 1.

48.
T. S. Eliot,
The Waste Land
, in
The Harper Anthology of Poetry
, ed. John Frederick Nims (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 574-575.

49.
Speiser, 142.

50.
Hermann Gunkel,
The Legends of Genesis
(New York: Schocken Books, 1964), 34.

51.
D. Alan Aycock, “The Fate of Lot’s Wife” in
Structuralist Interpretations of
Biblical Myth
, ed. Edmund Leach and D. Alan Aycock (Cambridge [England] and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 116.

52.
Ginzberg, vol. 1, 255.

53.
Aycock, 118.

54.
Aycock, 115.

55.
The young woman whose dance so charmed Herod that he granted her wish and gave her John the Baptist’s head on a platter is not named in the New Testament (Matt. 14:6–8; Mark 6:22–25), but the ancient historian Josephus gives her name as Salome. RSV, 1189-1190, n. 14.1-12.

56.
Ginzberg, vol. 5, 243, n. 188.

57.
Ginzberg, vol. 5, 243, n. 188.

58.
von Rad, 223.

59.
Clements, 201.

1.
Michael Maswari Caspi, “The Story of the Rape of Dinah,”
Hebrew Studies
26, no. 1 (1985): 29, citing
Midrash Rabbah Genesis
.

2.
Louis Ginzberg,
Legends of the Jews
, 7 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1909-1938), vol. 1, 395.

3.
Ita Sheres,
Dinah’s Rebellion
(New York: Crossroad, 1990), 6-7.

4.
Meir Sternberg,
The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 446.

5.
Martin Kessler, “Genesis 34—An Interpretation,”
Reformed Review
19, no. 1 (September 1965): 4, fn. 6, citing Gerhard von Rad.

6.
E. A. Speiser, tr., intro., and notes,
Genesis
, Anchor Bible (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1986), 262.

7.
Sheres, 1.

8.
Sternberg, 446.

9.
Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn, “Tipping the Balance,”
Journal of Biblical Literature
110, no. 2 (summer 1991): 207.

10.
Fewell and Gunn, 196, n. 4.

11.
Julian Pitt-Rivers,
The Fate of Shechem, or The Politics of Sex
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 146-47.

12.
Gila Ramras-Rauch, “Fathers and Daughters,” in “Mappings of the Biblical Terrain,” ed. Vincent L. Tollers and John Maier,
Bucknell Review
33, no. 2, 1990, p. 161, citing the work of Samuel Sandel.

13.
James Kugel, “The Story of Dinah in the
Testament of Levi,” Harvard Theological Review
85, no. 1 (1992): 2.

14.
Fewell and Gunn, 200; Sheres, 86.

15.
Sheres, 83, 85-86.

16.
Caspi, 41.

17.
Sheres, 86-87, 89.

18.
Kugel, 16.

19.
Kugel, 14, citing David Weiss Halivni,
Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara: The Jewish Predilection for Justified Law
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), 30-34.

20.
Victor H. Matthews, Manners
and Customs in the Bible
(Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988), p. 14.

21.
Susan Niditch, “The Wronged Woman Righted,”
Harvard Theological Review
72, nos. 1-2 (January-April 1979): 145.

22.
Ramras-Rauch, 162. “[A]s a denied woman she is doomed to a life of disgrace if she is returned home unmarried, while as the wife of the converted Shechem she would have some status.”

23.
Pitt-Rivers, 147-48.

24.
Roland de Vaux,
Ancient Israel
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), vol. 1, 26.

25.
Cynthia Ozick,
Metaphor and Memory
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 278-79.

26.
Clinton Bailey, “How Desert Culture Helps Us Understand the Bible,”
Bible Review
7, no. 4 (August 1991): 20. “All males are obliged to defend and avenge each other, just as they are all liable to suffer revenge for the misdeeds of the one. This not only gives ‘strategic depth’ to any isolated Bedouin, it also deters one Bedouin from attacking another, lest he cause hardship to the members of his clan.”

27.
Sternberg, 470.

28.
Fewell and Gunn, 207, fn. 24, citing Walter Brueggemann,
Genesis: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
(Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1982), 278.

29.
Kugel, 3-5.

30.
Sternberg, 472-74.