"The Harlot by the Side of the Road"

"The Harlot by the Side of the Road" was an interesting look at stories from the Bible that most people do not even know exist. In Sunday school and church you never hear the stories of rape, incest and violence that Jonathan Kirsch explains in this book. The teachers and pastors screen what knowledge of the Bible they teach you, leaving out the stories of the ever so controversial topic of sex. Through out the stories I had read of the forbidden tales, some themes that arose to my attention were that women always seem to be at the center of controversy or the cause of it, and that women h…