Harlott by the Side of the Road

The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible, by Jonathan Kirsch, was one of the most interesting and explicit collections of biblical stories that I have ever encountered. I spent much of my earlier years in bible lessons and listening to Sunday sermons, but never was I exposed to the sex and violence that the stories of this book tells.
Obviously, I was charged to write a rather lengthy paper detailing my thoughts about this book, and to find some commonality among the stories and expound upon those commonalties.
Although I am not a very deep thinker, and an even poorer writer, the two themes that seemed to be very obvious throughout these stories were: (1) Women always seem to be at the center of or the cause of a major controversy, i.e. war, murder and death and (2) Women had the innate ability to scheme and connive to get what they wanted or what they felt they were justly entitled too. I will attempt to cohesively address both of these themes in the follow...