Rape in the Hebrew Bible decried in the Bible's stories. It is not tolerated in the Bible's laws." Sunil Francis concurs in her book "Violence Against Women: A Christian Ethical Analysis on Rape", writing "The Bible always sees rape as violence and sin." Genesis 19 features an attempted homosexual gang rape. Two angels arrive in Sodom, and Lot shows them hospitality. However, the men of the city gathered around Lot's house and demanded that he give them the two guests so that they could rape them. In response to this, Lot offers the mob his two virgin daughters instead. The mob refuses Lot's offer, but
In the Shadow of the Sword (book) or 'Muslim' is looked upon with suspicion." Another critic, Sarah Annes Brown, believes it is impossible to find any Islamophobic content in the book, while the historian Glen Bowersock criticized it for lack of historical accuracy, saying he has "not seen a book about Arabia that is so irresponsible and unreliable since Kamal Salibi's "The Bible Came from Arabia" (1985)." Dan Jones, writing for the "Telegraph", gave the book a favourable review calling it a "complex story" which Holland "made his own". He describes Holland as "one of the most distinctive prose stylists writing history today, and he drags his