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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] virginity
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:25:33 -0500

Sorry about the double mailing

Dear Shoshanna,
No it is not - where is viginity a moral issue in the Bible? Nowhere. There is a list of prohibited relationships, which are serious transgressions, that is all.

HH: It is a moral issue in the passage that we have been discussing,
Deut 22:13-21. This is the main passage on the subject. It is talking
about a moral issue, that of sexual purity. The idea is that men wanted
pure wives, not women that other men had possessed sexually. Virginity
is also a moral issue in other biblical laws: Deut 22:23-24, Deut
22:28-29. There is an implied moral element in Lev 21:14. The issue of
virginity probably lies behind the words in Song of Solomon 8:8-10. One
of the Shulamite's attractions for Solomon was the purity of her virginity.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard






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