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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

A vow of celibacy by a three year old girl?

Color me skeptical.

Your real problem is that Jewish culture and Law did not glorify celibacy in the way later Christian and Catholic culture did. It promoted marriage, childbirth and family. Virginity, particularly perpetual virginity, was not viewed as a good thing.


28 posted on 09/21/2013 5:15:25 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Sherman Logan
Jewish culture and Law did not glorify celibacy in the way later Christian and Catholic culture did.

Well, Jesus (Mat 19:12) and St. Paul valued it (1 Cor. 7:1-7).

Regardless, there were the Essenes.

29 posted on 09/21/2013 5:24:30 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Sherman Logan

It is a lot more complicated than that. If not celibacy, chastity was an extremely complicated thing in Judaism, more so than in Christianity.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4263-chastity


33 posted on 09/21/2013 6:07:54 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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