Luke’s Gay Apocalypse: “Two Men in One Bed”
Whether or not you believe in the rapture, and whether or not you even believe the Bible, there is nevertheless something very significant for gays and lesbians that is located smack-dab-in-the-middle...
View ArticleTwo Men In One Bed–two men or two people?
There is some debate over how Luke 17:34 should be translated, whether on “that night” there are “two people in one bed” or “two men in one bed.” The NIV, for example, favor the first rendering: I tell...
View ArticleThat Old, Old Problem: Two Men in One Bed
In that night, there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. The sexual implications of Luke 17:34 have long been seen. But what is true in recent history was...
View ArticleThe Bed in Luke and Leviticus
Thanks to AB’s comment, I found something surprising about the relationship between Luke’s “two men in one bed” and the phrase in Leviticus about a man laying “with a man as with a woman.” In Leviticus...
View ArticleWhen They Close Ranks Against You
It started in June of last year, and lasted until the end of August. On a much-visited “fundamentalist” website I found a thread titled “Luke 17:34 – 36,” initiated in 2006 by a poster who asked...
View Article“The Sin of Sodom” Revisited
Sodom, Hospitality, and Same-Sex Relations More and more, conservative Bible scholars are acknowledging the fact that, Biblically speaking, the sin of Sodom has to do with the lack of hospitality–in...
View ArticleSummary: The Galilee Episode
Here are some of the discoveries I cover in my book, The Galilee Episode: Two Men in One Bed, Two Women Grinding. I started my research over a decade ago, wondering if the couples in Luke 17:34-35...
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