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S2 Ep1093: Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage, Part 2: Preston Sprinkle

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The Rise and Fall of Same-Sex Relationships in the First Century

There's an unpublished PhD dissertation by Laura Dunn, who I believe she wrote this dissertation under the renowned Egyptologist. She shows that in the first century in particular, these kind of traditional forms of dominator dominated and same-sex relationships were starting to break down. And you even see some of the satirists like juvenile and Marshall later on kind of bemoaning the fact That These rigid structures of if you're a citizen, you play the active role are breaking down.

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