From: Perry L. Stepp (stratfink@email.msn.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 10:18:07 EDT
Bart,
I ran across a 1st-2nd century AD reference (I'm not sure where, I'd need to
look it up) where "flute player"/"flute playing" seemed to me (with my
admittedly soiled mind) to be a euphemism for oral sex. This caught my
attention because I've heard of an early Christian retelling of the parable
of the Prodigal Son in which the prodigal is criticized for wasting his
inheritance "on prostitutes and flute players" (again, I'd need to dig
around and find the reference.)
Also, SPERMOLOGOS (Acts 17) always seemed to me to have a rather earthy
edge--"ejaculator of words" or somesuch.
PLStepp
Senior Pastor, DeSoto Christian Church, DeSoto TX
Ph.D. candidate, Baylor University
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political
part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual
part.
--Jerry Garcia, RS 30 Nov 1989
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From: Bart Ehrman <behrman@email.unc.edu>
To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:02 AM
Subject: [b-greek] Sexy words
> I'm interested in finding Greek terms involving sex and sexual
> activities, terms that would have been vulgar or crude (the phi-words in
> Greek :-)) but that were given euphemistic renderings by Liddell and Scott
> (or other 19th century lexicographers). This is a sudden and urgent
> interest (since I suddenly realized that it might relate to a conference
> paper I'm writing, and it needs to be written in the next few days...);
> but since almost all of my work is in NT and other early Jewish and
> Christian texts, I must confess not to have a slew of such beasts at my
> ready disposal.
>
> Any words come to mind?
>
> -- Bart Ehrman
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
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