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Oct. 19th, 2008 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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 :)
- Phyllis A. Bird. Prostitution in Ancient Israel, a paper orginally given at a conference at the University of Wisconsin, 2002 :)
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Date: 2008-10-19 05:34 pm (UTC)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?)
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Date: 2008-10-19 05:47 pm (UTC)OMG... Someone in Hosea's time was *block-booking rooms*?!? =:oO