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  • From: <david.kimbrough AT charter.net>
  • To: "Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwood.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Zonah v Qadeshah & Hosea
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:22:38 +0000

Stoney,

There was clearly a close association between the sexual activities of the
zonah and the kadeshah, as Genesis 38 and Hosea 4:14 show. Tamar did get
pregnanant while pretending to be a kadeshah (the Adullamite would have
thought so anyway).



>
> From: "Stoney Breyer" <stoneyb AT touchwood.net>
> Date: 2004/07/14 Wed PM 09:59:00 GMT
> To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [b-hebrew] RE: Zonah v Qadeshah & What Judah Thought
>
> *my* point is that the use of a kadeshah in Genesis 38 does seems (I am
> not saying this is proven) to have some more honor, or was at least less
> embrassing, than using a zonah. That would seem to explain why the
> Adullamite was out looking for a kadeshah to redeem Judah signet,
> braclet, and staff, rather than a zonah.
>
> Oh, I quite agree. But we still don't know whether "qedeshah" is a
> euphemism for "zonah", a professional girl of higher class than a
> "zonah" ("hetaira" vs "porne"), or somebody entirely different who could
> be comically confused with a "zonah". I think this is the question this
> whole thread derived from: is a qedeshah a ritual copulatrix, a
> prostitute whose earnings went to a religious corporation, or a sacred
> servant whose service was nonsexual?.
>
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David Kimbrough
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