Hamas Is Using Rocket Attacks as a Form of Extortion
While maintaining disciplined control of its forces.
May 6, 2019
No, Biblical Prohibitions on Incest Are Not about “Sexual Property”
The meaning of “nakedness.”
Leviticus 18 and 20—read in synagogues last Sabbath and the upcoming one, respectively—contain near-identical lists of forbidden relationships. Most verses in these chapters refer to these forbidden acts as “uncovering nakedness,” e.g., “Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father” (18:8). According to the late French Bible scholar Guillaume Cardascia, and other contemporary academic biblicists, these prohibitions stem from a notion of a man’s control over his female relatives; transgression of these laws thus constitutes a violation of his property rights. Eve Levavi Feinstein explains, and dismantles, this argument:
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Anti-Semites Don’t Just Hate Jews. They’re Targeting Freedom
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Including pressure on Saudi Arabia to stop exporting extremism.
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No, Biblical Prohibitions on Incest Are Not about “Sexual Property”
The meaning of “nakedness.”