… Rabbi Henkin similarly points to the terminology employed in the prohibitions ulo tiheyeh kedeshah" and "/o yiheyeh kadesb" (Deuteronomy 23:18). Those passages are read literally as …
The writers of the New Testament commonly disclose the identity of Christ by means of a broad array of typological images and motifs that are often interconnected. Two of these types …
Kidushin—betrothal—the central legal act that creates a binding relationship between a Jewish man and a Jewish woman, is ritually and legally a unilateral act, performed by the male …
… Abba Mari’s responsa also feature conflicts with the Kimh.i family over cases concerning divorced women’s ability to remarry and one man’s putative betrothal to “a prostitute [kedeshah] …
… A prostitute is a kedeshah because she dedicates herself not to one man but to the act of harlotry. The adversaries of the king of Judah are made kadosh in the sense that they are set …
… Maimonides even decrees flogging in such a case on grounds of kedeshah — prostitution. The final halakhic decision today, after the controversy between the medieval authorities, was …
Harlot or Holy Woman? presents an exhaustive study of qedešah, a Hebrew word meaning “consecrated woman” but rendered “prostitute” or “sacred prostitute” in Bible translations. …
… Before they went down to Egypt we see Judah having commerce with a supposed kedeshah, or sacred prostitute of a heathen shrine (Gen. If, then, the Canaanite-Israelite held his …
The Genesis 38 story of Judah’s engagement with his daughter-in-law Tamar, who had disguised herself as a common prostitute (zonah), speaks to the opaque nature of patriarchal …
The application of the historical method to the study of the prophets Amos and Hosea has resulted in some changes in our view of the metaphysical teaching to be found in their writings. …