Rick has a post up about some rough speech in the Holy Writ…
So, here’s the thing… Scripture was not written by Puritans (or rather, Puritans of later American polemical imagination) or straight-laced fundamentalists. Indeed, our notion of profanity is rather new (I mean, read Luther and Calvin and Tyndale. All men used language which would have them dismissed in many churches today).
If you care about the Text, then you won’t mind reading the nasty parts either.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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