Re: arsenoikoites

• To: b-greek@virginia.edu, jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu
• Subject: Re: arsenoikoites
• From: "GARY D. COLLIER" <gcollier@du.edu>
• Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 11:39:16 -0600

>It is forbidding a husband to sleep with a *male* on the bed of his
>wife, a specification of adultery, not a general condemnation of
>homosexual behavior.

(Speaking of Lev. 18:22)

Since you indicate that Lev. 18:22 makes this distinction --
by implication from the text, would Lev. 18:22 (LXX) have allowed
a husband to sleep with a *male* on the floor beside the bed, or
on the couch, or under a tree?  

Gary D. Collier
University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology
gcollier@du.edu

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