porneia

Michael Abernathy mabernat at cub.kcnet.org
Sun Oct 17 00:15:58 EDT 1999


Paul Dixon said porneia "cannot be adultery or prostitution, since the lawful punishment for such is death by stoning."  You might want to reconsider this argument.  There is substantial evidence that during the New Testament period divorce, not stoning, was the usual consequence of adultery (See. Markus Bockmuehl's article "Matthew 5.32; 19.9 in the Light of Pre-Rabinnic Halakhah" New Testament Studies vol. 35, 1989, pp. 291-295).  Also consider Joseph's planned divorce of Mary upon finding that she was pregnant.

Michael Abernathy
Lock Haven
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