elstaffe’s Reviews > The X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible > Status Update

"As a parting comment we would point out that in the first quotation of this chapter (Isaiah 36:12), the wording 'that they may eat their own dung and drink their own piss' is identical to that of II Kings 18:27. Apparently the later Biblical writer thought this repetition necessary and proper." (134) a good deployment of the necessary and proper clause