Timeline for Why does the Rambam (Maimonides) equate all sex outside marriage as prostitution?
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| Nov 15, 2011 at 3:22 | comment | added | user4951 | @Shalom. Yea I am merely guessing that christians got their terms for Rashi. Many christians world view and terms does come from "surprising" origin. Son of God comes from filius Dei, which is the title of emperor. Easter comes from Ishtar. Calling YHWH the LORD actually does come from the jews, surprisingly. Rashi and Rambam are popular in Christians stackexchange too. And jews are pretty helenized too nowadays like christians. In Israel, women don't get stoned and can vote, for example. The similarity is as astounding as the differences :) It's as if both can say, now you're on my shoes. | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 14:47 | comment | added | Shalom | @JimThio, this has nothing to do with Rashi! Genesis says that the people of Sodom were great sinners, and they wanted to rape visitors. The Christian interpretation is they were all into homosexual relations; hence Christians coined the term "sodomy" for homosexual acts. The Jewish interpretation of Sodom was that it was all about callousness to outsiders, and rape as a tool of intimidation to keep moochers away. The prostitution verse just says "male or female prostitutes", some translated this as "sodomists" as the men were servicing men. But that's based on a Christian-coined term. | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 4:35 | comment | added | user4951 | Looks like Rabam agreed :) "For [ultimately], a father will marry his daughter and a brother his sister, [for in a sexually permissive society] a [girl] may become pregnant and give birth without knowing who the child's father is." Boy who would expect things like this written centuries ago before evolutionary psychology. | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 3:20 | comment | added | user4951 | I asked these questions because Matt Ridley (a secular scientist) explain that marriage originated as way to decide fatherhood. That's why cultures without Torah (virtually most cultures) tend to have "similar" customs. In ancient time marriage protect men from ending up inheriting and supporting other men's child. Now, marriage actually open men to such liabilities. | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 3:11 | comment | added | user4951 | Who would expect that Christian association of sodomite to homosexuals trace all the way to Rashi. A guy most christians are not aware off. Looks like christians listen to jews more than I thought. So it seems that God's commandment against sex outside marriage is not very clear and only apply to jews. Even the Rashi and Rambam don't think that way. | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 2:15 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Rashi interprets "kadesh" as referring specifically to someone who's promiscuously homosexual. I'm not sure why. Anyway, that's probably the basis for the JPS translation as "sodomite." | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 0:14 | history | answered | Shalom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |