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I have also seen it construed the original prohibition was against pedastery as practiced by the Greeks, not homosexuality in general.
by R0b0t1 6y ago
I have also seen it construed the original prohibition was against pedastery as practiced by the Greeks, not homosexuality in general.
- andrewflnr 6y agoPretty sure that pertains to the New Testament (e.g. Paul), not the Pentateuch. I don't know the exact timeline, but I don't think the ancient Greeks as we know them were a factor when the Old Testament law was written.
- InfiniteRand 6y agoThere’s some decent evidence that the Philistines were Greek, although they would have been Greeks before the period when Greeks wrote much about pedastery so your point probably is still valid
- andrewflnr 6y agoAh, that's fascinating. TIL.
- R0b0t1 6y agoI think pederasty was relatively common, I didn't mean to associate it just with Greek influence.