The Ancient Pedigree Of Homosexuality as the Sin of Sodom / Melvin L. Otey
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ArticlePublication details: Greece; Themelio Publications Ltd, Apr.2024Description: pages, 32-43Subject(s):
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Scholars disagree about the precise nature of the sin that provokes God's wrath in Genesis 19. In fact multiple transgressions are involved including fornications rape, and inhospitality. Christian exegetes traditionally emphasize the apparently homoerotic aspects of the sodomites' demand to "know" the angels inside Lot's home. However, some modern scholars isolate the aggressors' inhospitality to the exclusion of any potential sexual deviance and allege that the emphasis on fornication especially homosexual intercourse , is historically recent phenomenon. This article critiques this assertion by demonstrating that a tradition within second temple Judaism and the primitive church attribues sexual sins, including homosexuality, to sodom and its neighbors.
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Scholars disagree about the precise nature of the sin that provokes God's wrath in Genesis 19. In fact multiple transgressions are involved including fornications rape, and inhospitality. Christian exegetes traditionally emphasize the apparently homoerotic aspects of the sodomites' demand to "know" the angels inside Lot's home. However, some modern scholars isolate the aggressors' inhospitality to the exclusion of any potential sexual deviance and allege that the emphasis on fornication especially homosexual intercourse , is historically recent phenomenon. This article critiques this assertion by demonstrating that a tradition within second temple Judaism and the primitive church attribues sexual sins, including homosexuality, to sodom and its neighbors.
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