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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: david.kimbrough AT charter.net
  • Cc: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Kadeshah & Tanakh
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:50:00 +0100

On 15/07/2004 06:37, david.kimbrough AT charter.net wrote:

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The Tanakh editorializes constantly about what is right and wrong. It never condems a man for the use of a zonah (unless it is associated with worship) but woman who is a zonah (or kadeshah) is always condemned. ...


This is wildly inaccurate. Men are condemned for using a zonah in Gen 34:31, Jer 5:7, also Num 25:1 in context with the verb ZNH. In Hosea 4:10-14 the point is made clear that the responsibility is that of the men who use prostitutes (masculine verb forms HIZNU v.10 and YEFAREDU v.14) rather than the girls themselves; cf 6:10. And Proverbs is packed full of instructions to men to avoid the zonah: see 6:26, 7:10. 23:27, 29:3 in context and many other places where the actual word is not used. This is looking only at passages where the context is not strongly religious.

... Only in Genesis 38 is the irony of this double standard noted.


No, also in Hosea 4.

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