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  2. Sexuality and marital status of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    In first century Judaea, sexual immorality in Second Temple Judaism included incest, impure thoughts, homosexual relations, adultery, and bestiality.According to the rabbinic interpretation of Genesis 2:24, [1] [2] "a man shall leave his father and his mother" forbids a man from having relations with his father's wife and his own biological mother; "cleave to his wife" forbids a man from ...

  3. Gerontophilia - Wikipedia

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    Féré described a 27-year-old man who rejected an arranged marriage with a 20-year-old "beauty" in favor of a 62-year-old woman. [3] Such studies commonly report that the subject had an early sexual experience with a much older woman. [8] A figurative gerontophilia was a characteristic of Algernon Charles Swinburne's passion for antiquated ...

  4. Women in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Bible sometimes uses different names for the same woman, names in different languages can be translated differently, and some names can be used for either men or women. Professor Karla Bombach says one study produced a total of 3000–3100 names, 2900 of which are men with 170 of the total being women.

  5. Incest in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    [24] [25] [26] The Deuteronomic Code gives a yet more simple list of prohibited relationships – a man's parent's daughter (including his sister), a man's father's wife (including his mother), and a man's mother-in-law. [27] [28] In the Hebrew Bible, sexual relationships between siblings are forbidden to Jews but permissible to Gentiles (non ...

  6. Jesus's interactions with women - Wikipedia

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    [17]: 291 Fontaine comments that "the Bible views women as a group of people who are fulfilled, legitimated, given full membership into their community, and cared for in old age by their children," and that barren women risked ostracism from their communities. She notes that when disabled people are healed, the act "emphasizes primarily the ...

  7. Leviticus 18 - Wikipedia

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    The Bible lists several types of relationship which it regards as incestuous unions; one list appears in the Deuteronomic Code, and two lists occur in the Holiness Code of Leviticus. These lists only mention relationships with female relatives; excluding lesbianism , which implies that the list is addressed to men.

  8. The Bible and homosexuality - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, [5] [6] favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other forms of human sexual activity, [5] [6] including ...

  9. Almah - Wikipedia

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    Almah (עַלְמָה ‎ ‘almā, plural: עֲלָמוֹת ‎ ‘ălāmōṯ), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman sexually ripe for marriage. [1] Despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew , scholars agree that it refers to a woman of ...