Episode 665: Dr. Dan McClellan, Biblical Scholar, Data over Dogma
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Myshkavey Eshah in Hebrew
There's a lot of debate about this because the text is not very clear. We just have these two passages that are using this phrase, Myshkavey Eshah in Hebrew. The only two times this phrase occurs anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. There was a social hierarchy of domination and penetration that rendered it problematic for one man to subject another man to that kind of submissive sexual act. And so it was considered illicit, it was considered inappropriate,. It was considered a violation of the personhood of this other male.
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