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Naked Bible 469: 1 Samuel 20

The Naked Bible Podcast

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The Bible and Gay Practice

In the Bible, kissing was a common way of saying hello or goodbye in the ancient Near East as it is in many cultures to this day. If all the kisses that the Bible recorded were interpreted in sexual terms, then Isaac would have been erotically involved with his own son and so would Laban. Joseph would have beenEroticallyinvolved with his just deceased father, Jacob,. And these are just samples from the first book of the Bible, Genesis. Obviously, all this public kissing was not in the least bit sexual. In Exodus we see Moses kissing his brother Aaron and his father in log Jethro, Exodus 427, Exodus 187. For a few examples of non-rel

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