It's true.
Once in Seminary I wrote a paper on how Bruce Springsteen songs are a natural continuation of the "Psalms" in the Bible.
I was sent to the Dean's office ... again ... for failing or comply with Southern Baptist Theological instruction.
But it was with great glee a few days later, when Professor Donoso Escobar ... who had previously sent me to the Dean's office for calling him a "whitewashed Christian" because he didn't allow me to quote "Liberation" theologians in his class ... told us to write a paper on anything Biblical.
My topic was "Biblical Harems."
"Mr. Elliott," Dr. Escobar said when I announced my topic, "nobody's written about that yet. How do you plan to approach your topic?"
"With gusto," I truthfully answered.
There's actually a lot of Harems in the Bible and I studied them all ... from Esther getting whatever she wants from the King (Esther 2:13) to Solomon's 700 wives and Princesses and 300 concubines (I Kings11:3).
I wrote a great scholarly paper but needed a conclusion and couldn't think of one.
Then God spoke ... through Maria Muldauar ... on the radio.
"But you don't need no Harem honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
To take you for a ride."
Meaning of course God didn't use Harems much in the New Testament because people had gotten so much better at lovemaking.
Consequently I was sent to the Dean's office again ... though I was singing "Jailhouse Rock" the whole way there.
