porneia

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Oct 16 23:55:01 EDT 1999


At 9:15 PM -0700 10/16/99, Michael Abernathy wrote:
>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.

Ah ..., but that was because he was a DIKAIOS ANHR!


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