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[dreamer_easy]

Of Hosea 4: "... it is impossible to determine how much of the description may simply be caricature of licentious practices at rural sanctuaries - analogous to the practices associated with convention centres and places of pilgrimage in other times and places."
- Phyllis A. Bird. Prostitution in Ancient Israel, a paper orginally given at a conference at the University of Wisconsin, 2002 :)

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[qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com]

for lo, the lord spake unto moses, saying, 'thou shalt not defile thyself at the temple of the convention center, yea, nor pay worship to the pixellated images as the heathen do, nor purchase with the sweat of thy brow any of the false idols or extortionately priced souveniers they do peddle there, for their merchants do speak with forked tongues and tax their goods a hundredfold.'

sounds to me like old jehovah can't handle the competition, personally.

(btw, is it just me who detects a distinctly wistful note of jealousy whenever an old testament author starts banging on and on about all the deviant sexual sins of the heathens?)

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"practices associated with convention centres "

OMG... Someone in Hosea's time was *block-booking rooms*?!? =:oO