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  • From: dwashbur AT nyx.net
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] virginity
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:29:46 -0700

References in the biblical text appear to focus more or less exclusively on
the question of
sexual activity. Hence, redefining virginity anatomically in such a context
is not valid
exegesis, or so it seems to me.

On 17 Jul 2007 at 7:15, Isaac Fried wrote:

>
> Dave,
> A great deal was said about the (LMAH being a virgin, and now we are
> heatedly debating
> virginity, but none of thedisputants ever made clear to the rest of us what
> he means by virgin or
> virginity. A virgin may mean:
> 1. A woman with an originally intact hymen.
> 2. A woman [of ripe age?] who never had sex [what this means needs also
> close scrutiny] with a
> man.
> Of corse, an intact hymen does not mean the woman is innocent, and a broken
> hymen does not
> mean the woman is guilty of any wrong doing.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Jul 16, 2007, at 7:19 PM, dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:
>
> You are arbitrarily redefining "virginity" to mean "intact hymen" whereas
> in the biblical text it
> clearly means "not having had intercourse." I have yet to see anything
> anywhere in the
> textual or linguistic context that makes this redefinition valid.
>
> On 16 Jul 2007 a
>
>


Dave Washburn
But I can't say Sylvester, George!




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