Saturday, May 05, 2018

Forbidden sex in the Holiness Code and the ANE

DR. EVE LEVAVI FEINSTEIN: Sexual Prohibitions in the Bible and the ANE: A Comparison (TheTorah.com).
How do the laws of Leviticus 18 compare to the laws and practices of the Babylonians, Hittites, and Egyptians, and to the rest of the Bible?
By the standards of other ANE societies, the sexual laws in H are exceptionally restrictive.

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