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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The most opportune occasion for such a vow was her presentation in the Temple.

Except that Judaism didn't have consecrated virgins.

The Protoevangelium of James (7-8), and the writing entitled “De nativit. Mariae” (7-8), state that Joachim and Anna, faithful to a vow they had made, presented the child Mary in the Temple when she was three years old; that the child herself mounted the Temple steps, and that she made her vow of virginity on this occasion.

The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James or the Protoevangelium of James, is an apocryphal Gospel probably written about AD 145

Infancy gospels are not apocryphal, they are pseudepigraphal - without author or provenance - They are spurious works, and the very fact that the Protoevangelium of James injects pagan consecrated virgins into Judaism proves without a doubt that it is purely fiction (and poorly written).

I do so wish that our Romish FRiends would stop using spurious works as proofs.

83 posted on 09/22/2013 1:03:01 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

As I mentioned before, Judaisms views of chastity do not mesh with Christians views of chastity. “Consecrated virgin” is a Christian term that would make no sense to the Jews of the period. However, this does not mean that the Jews didn’t have very complex ideas on the subject.

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

But in turn, this places odd constraints on those Christian authors after the fact, trying to explain foreign ideas in Christian terms, to a Christian audience unfamiliar with the Jewish concepts.


92 posted on 09/22/2013 7:48:55 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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