November
10
/ 2021
It should come as no surprise to most that the biblical writers were unfair to the gentler sex. After all, ever since Eve bit into the forbidden apple, the Good Book has been long obsessed with the notion of bad girls. Over the millennia, the stories of the Bible’s temptresses have been used by both religious disciplinarians and secular moralists alike to guide young women on how not to behave. This obsession with feminine transgression, turned the vices of these vixens into the stuff of legends—far surpassing their worst excesses. Spanning 12 centuries, the focus falls on three bedeviling bad girls: Delilah, hailing from the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures, followed a few centuries later
