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Answers to the questions you would have liked to ask about the Bible but were too squeamish to raise your hand about.

There's a lot of sex and violence in the Bible. Author Joseph W. Smith III wants to show this is true and to demonstrate that Christians do not need to be overly squeamish about explicit content any more than the Bible itself is. In Sex & Violence in the Bible, he clarifies and explains some of the graphic passages we find in Scripture. Many of these references have been obscured by idiom and the cultural difference between then and now, but there is no doubt sex and violence are present.

In this carefully organized catalog of sexual, violent, and other blunt biblical passages, Joseph Smith develops a "Christian aesthetic" to help us process our culture's daily deluge of such material. Assesses "please give me some"; "uncover his feet";"unclean until evening"; "your lewd whorings"; "weeping and gnashing of teeth"; "wallowing in his blood"; "wasting disease and fever"; "a thing to be hissed at"; and more.