The Good Book is full of family dramas that would make even the late Jerry Springer blush. You’d think a holy text would rise above soap opera drama, but instead the Bible keeps circling back to incest, cousin marriages, father-daughter weirdness, and brother-sister hookups. Preachers like to sweep these stories under the rug, but they’re right there in black and white. And they say a lot about the “morality” of the ancient world.
The Bible’s Obsession With Incest
How family sex stories made it into scripture and what it says about ancient values
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