(Ad)Dressing Foreign Women: Ancient Exegesis of Numbers 25 and Roman Prostitution
Does the infinitive לזנות in Num 25:1 suggest that the foreign women were prostitutes? Analyzing four Roman-period Jewish sources—Biblical Antiquities 18:13–14; Philo, Moses 1.294–304 and Virtues 34–50; and Sifre Numbers 131—this article demonstrates that the public exposure of naked bodies in LAB r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2022, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 198-228 |
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Dresses
/ Prostitution
/ Alien
/ Sifre Numbers
/ Bible. Numeri 25
/ Josephus, Flavius 37-100, Antiquitates Judaicae 18-20
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Roman prostitution
B Sifre Numbers B Biblical Antiquities (LAB) B foreign women B Dress B Numbers 25 B Philo |
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