Sex and Sanctity in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew: A Christian Bedtrick and Its Biblical Bedrock
In the apocryphal Acts of Andrew, a familiar double plot of sex and mistaken identity features Maximilla, a recently converted wife, tricking her pagan husband, Aegeates, into bedding her masked maid in order to retain the purity of her own bed. In resorting to this stratagem of sexual deception, th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2024
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-74 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Acts of Andrew
/ Bible. Genesis 29
/ Wife
/ Christian woman
/ Deception
/ Sexual intercourse
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics NCF Sexual ethics |
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