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  • From: "Kevin W. Woodruff" <cierpke AT prodigy.net>
  • To: Dora Smith <villandra AT austin.rr.com>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Sodomite" in 2 Kings 23.7
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:19:01 -0700 (PDT)

Dora:

The Hebrew word is QADESH and it refers to a
cultic/shrine prostitute in the Canaanite religion. It
involved both homosexual and heterosexual
relationships

Kevin W. Woodruff

--- Dora Smith <villandra AT austin.rr.com> wrote:
> What is meant by "sodomite" (or word translated
> thereas) in the following
> passage on Josiah's eviction of Baal from the LORDs
> temple in
> Jerusalem?
>
> "And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
> were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove
> hangings for the grove." (2 Kings 23.7).
>
> One thing it does not appear to mean is
> homosexuality. It is a place where
> women wore hangings for the grove - where Yahweh's
> wife Asherah was
> worshipped.
>
> But it clearly also is not a reference to a failure
> to show hospitality to
> strangers, as appears to be the case in other Old
> Testmament references to
> the term sodomite.
>
> St. Paul seems to have thought that homosexuality
> was closely tied to the
> practice of idolatry - is this a clue to what was
> actually going on in the
> minds of the authors of Kings?
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, Texas
> villandra AT austin.rr.com
>
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