BlakeEM

Not sure if this has been posted but I never seen it.

http://www.biblesexstories.com/

Lugubert

Many of these fictitious stories may be material to argue about, but I want to defend Ruth on all accounts.

In the first place, the love between Naomi and Ruth is no more complicated than between any mother and her daughter. If, which is not even hinted at in the scriptures, it would have been a more physical kind of love, so what? Nothing like that is condemned or critizised anywhere in the Sacred books of Christianity and Judaism.

To be on the safe side, and to guard against any other misunderstandings and criticism, I would like to state that Ruth's behaviour towards Boas is beyond reproach, in spite of the hint in, for example, Harris: Understanding the Bible that she was "involved in irregular sexual activity". From the Hebrew text, I find it obvious that she spent the night "at Boas' feet", in a perfect chaste manner, which is as for example the Arabic translators have understood it (and they, speaking a Semitic language, would be in a perfect position to understand the Hebrew text). I could as well quote Flavius Josephus in Antiq. V:IX.4 "especially when there had been nothing done that was ill."

Regarding sex in the Bible, there are of course few more steaming parts than in the Song of Songs, however translators have tried to obscure the Hebrew text. Against what hole do you think the lover puts his hand in 5.4 to make her feel that way, etc.?

I is also interesting to note that some Jewish traditions hold Lot himself responsible for the actions in Gen. 19:33-35.