temple prostitution

I don't suppose that temple prostitution was very dignified, either.

In most Old Testament passages it is clearly homosexual temple prostitution.

At first there was temple prostitution in many Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries.

Yet temple prostitution played an important role in Astarte's cult at Phoenicia.

The Maya maintained several phallic religious cults, possibly involving homosexual temple prostitution.

As well, most of what Paul saw was either male temple prostitution, or the older man/younger man homosexual relationships that were common in Greek culture.

Besides, Lev 19:19 is a mistranslation - my biblical scholars say it refers to temple prostitution, which was a major problem at the time.

India outlawed temple prostitution in 1948.

When associated directly with sin (orgies, temple prostitution, etc.) or indecent exposure (in the modern sense).

While there remain favorable aspects regarding Canaanite religion, several of its reported practices have been widely criticized, in particular, temple prostitution, and child sacrifice.

This raises questions as to whether the phenomenon of temple prostitution can be generalized to the whole of the ancient world, as earlier scholars typically did.

The tradition of temple prostitution became forbidden in Hebrew religion, e.g., by the reforms instituted under King Josiah.

Leads to conclusion that Bible does not address real issues today, but only specific situations in the ancient world such as breaches of hospitality, temple prostitution, pederasty.

One suggestion, mooted by Victor Furnish and others, is that Paul is in fact describing a quite particular form of pagan temple prostitution.

Most reputable scholars believe that Paul was referring to homosexual temple prostitution which was performed by various cults (though far more cults used heterosexual prostitution).

It is true that in some of the Old Testament references to homosexuality, the context is clearly that of homosexual rape, or homosexual temple prostitution.

In Karnataka, a hilly southern state, William Dalrymple—the only non-Indian contributor to the collection—meets the inheritors of the now illegal tradition of temple prostitution.

Some theologians have argued that, when read in historical context, the Jewish Platonist philosopher Philo of Alexandria used the term in reference to temple prostitution.

Paul knew that this was an issue for the Christians in Corinth, and according to this interpretation, was writing to tell them clearly that temple prostitution was wrong.

Julia Assante believes that the classical view of temple prostitution is more of a construct of the 19th-century Western European mindset than a true representation of the facts.

Elsewhere in First Corinthians, incest, homosexual intercourse (according to some interpretations) and prostitution are all explicitly forbidden by name (however, the Septuagint uses "porneia" to refer to male temple prostitution).

In classical times and earlier, Corinth had a temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, employing some thousand hetairas (temple prostitutes) (see also Temple prostitution in Corinth).

The daughters at some point became victims of Aphrodite's wrath and had intercourse with foreigners,This is considered a possible reference to temple prostitution connected with the cult of Aphrodite or Astarte.

Judaism fought lengthy battles against syncretist tendencies: note the case of the golden calf and the railing of prophets against temple prostitution, witchcraft and local fertility cults, as told in the Tanakh.

But the case is strong without this.So the Leviticus references, like the others in the Old Testament, are linked with the hated Canaanite cults in which young men and women were recruited for temple prostitution.