Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Eric Weiss" <eweiss AT gte.net>]

I was recently made the recipient of Zondervan's NEW INTERNATIONAL 
DICTIONARY OF OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY AND EXEGESIS. The 5th volume is 
basically a volume of topical/theological discussions, and there is an 
essay/article on "Sex(uality)" (the articles are in alphabetical order by 
topic) which addresses this issue, including mentioning that "uncover one's 
nakedness" as meaning "have sexual relations."

I have no idea if it's of scholarly value, but I have a hard-to-find book 
called EROTICA JUDAICA: A Sexual History of the Jews, by Allen Edwardes, 
The Julian Press, Inc. (1967). Edwardes finds or purports to find many 
sexual references in the Hebrew Bible that are obscured by translation.

On 04/09/00, "Jason Hare <parousia_occ AT yahoo.com>" wrote:
> Have you taken time to notice how many sexual
> connotations are made in the HB?  I mean we discuss
> things all the time on this board that we eventually
> bring some kind of sexual meaning onto.  I just
> thought it might be of some interest to watch for that
> and see how often it happens.  We have recently been
> discussing the "uncover nakedness of..." passage and
> the "stones" from Ecc. 3.  These are only two of the
> MANY that we have discussed.  I just think it
> interesting.
> 
> Did the ancient Jews really focus so much on sex?  And
> why is it that so much is negative and not as much
> positive (Song of Songs excepted)?  Just interested. 
> :-)
> 
> Jason
> 
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