Word: potiphar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the story the Bible tells with artistic realism. Carefully the National Sunday School Union substituted "tempted him to do evil" rather than give the exact words of the wife of Potiphar. Question: Does the substitution help...
...When Joseph was 17 he was brought from Canaan into Egypt, sold to Potiphar, a captain of the guard. In the house of Potiphar he was well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
Bernarrd† MacFadden and his "PornoGraphic" at its best (or worst) which has frequently received sharp thrusts from 'Holier than Thou' TIME could not have printed a spicier morsel than the "invidious passages" from Potiphar's Wife...
Unlike Manhattan, which keeps its art respectable by means of the criminal code, London has a personal censor-the Lord Chamberlain. When Potiphar's Wife was announced for London's Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne...
...Invidious passages: GENESIS XXXIX, 12: And she [Potiphar's wife] caught him [Joseph] by his garment saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13: And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 14: That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice...