The Bible’s Obsession With Incest
How family sex stories made it into scripture and what it says about ancient values
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.
