How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

Some scholars believe that the Canaanites, who were living in the land at the time, had a magical practice of “wedding” different seeds together to have offspring in an attempt to conjure up fertile crops.1 There is a strong likelihood that the prohibitions against mixing different kinds