[B-Greek] ARSENOKOITHS: Did I get this right?
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 15 14:09:36 EST 2005
At 09:41 AM 3/15/2005 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>Stephen C. Carlson wrote:
>>Otherwise, the first definition would have been too broad in
>>that it does not take into account the social role of the male
>>engaging in the homoerotic activity. This problem is present
>>in your paraphrase of it as "male homosexual sex." To use
>>one of Halperin's examples, it would be like if someone tried
>>to define the English word "burglar" as either the robber or
>>the robbed in a burglary.
>Wright's article, which I read carefully, denies this distinction.Do you
>happen to know where I can find evidence for this distinction? Is it largely
>baseed on 1 Cor 6:9 itse[lf?]
I don't have Wright's article handy, so I don't know why
he denied that distinction. I didn't really appreciate
the distinction of social role either until I read some
classical scholars on the topic (e.g. Halperin, Foucault),
plus Clement of Alexandria and some of the Greek romances
(Achilles Tatius, Xenophon of Ephesus, etc.). So, I
wouldn't say that the distinction is based on 1 Cor 6:9.
If anything, the distinction informs our understanding
of ARSENOKOITAI and MALAKOI in 1 Cor 6:9.
Stephen Carlson
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