18:17-19 - An interesting passage... God speaks to himself, asking aloud (?) whether or not to tell Abraham about his plans to destroy Soddom and Gomorrah, but he doesn't really explain why he shouldn't. Clearly the point of telling Abraham would be to instill in him a sense of God's wrath. But what would be the point of not telling him?
19:31-38 - More not-nice Biblical sexy time! No sooner is Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt than his daughters (!) scheme to get him drunk then sleep with him, one at a time, for two consecutive nights!?!! I thought that stuff was verboten!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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The puzzle is why God didn't just let Lot and his family perish with the rest of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, since they are obviously a depraved bunch. Lot offers his two virgin daughters as sex toys to placate the rabble at his door. And nobody could be drunk enough to do what he does with his daughters innocently (I mean, if he is able to do the act, he is not too drunk to know what is going on: who could he possibly think that he is copulating with?). His wife is the only person who does not do anything recognizably wrong, and she gets turned to salt (though the text does not say that God did it).
ReplyDeleteI think it's hard to be a woman in the Torah, no? :0
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