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Having flax drying on the roof does not mean she raised it, nor that she harvested the stalks. They could have been offered as payment, and were being dried for the extraction of the fiber to make linnen. Any step in the process would add value to the flax. Being a harlot would not necessarily require that she be on her back 24/7. I saw an article a few years back which said some high dollar call girls were also full-time college students, 'working' their way through school. They worked shorter hours for far better pay than their more conventionally employed counterparts.

IF.... this were in the Wall Street Journal or a Forbes business story then I would not 'quibble' regarding the business. However, there can be NO doubt the Heavenly Father touched this woman as noted in Joshua 2:9-13 by her knowledge of who these men were and why they showed up at her business/home. NO pillow talk described.

I can take things as they are, but what I read does not fit the claim she was a hooker.

" I can take things as they are, but what I read does not fit the claim she was a hooker. "

There are many characters in the Bible that we don't much about, or their lives or work....
Just because the bible says she was a harlot, does not mean we need to know any more narrative about her as being a harlot, besides, the bible tells us that she stopped being a harlot when she decided to join Israel...
Just because there are people in the bible, and the only thing it says, was that they were a .. i.e. a king, a horse care taker, a slave, tax collector, or whatever, does not mean we need to know everything about them, unless ? the bible goes more into what and who they are.....
I don't waste my time on those things I can't figure out myself from the bible unless GOD would reveal it to me...

How about the man who , when he saw the ARK about to fall to the ground off the cart, and touched the ARK, GOD smote him... do we know much about what he work or job was ?
All we know is ? he touched the ARK, and was dead on the spot..

Lesson learned ? don't touch what GOD has made holy...

I can take things as they are, but what I read does not fit the claim she was a hooker.

The word "harlot" was used to describe her. No further details are necessary.

I have no authority to 'judge', God has spoken (waaay above my pay grade).

However, it is not uncommon in the Bible for those whom society might look down upon to find favor with God. So it is with all of us, for none are without sin. Society just apparently deems some sins more virtuous than others.

Regardless of her occupation or past, she did God's will, and she and her house were spared of all the town and those in it.

My other simple point (no Forbes needed) is that many people have multiple sources of income (nothing new), so having flax drying on the roof (another income source?, for the fiber or for her own use?) is not the big deal some would make it.

As for "hooker", well that is a late 20th century affectation, even 100 years ago (and today in some locales), the world's oldest profession was practiced in 'houses' rather than cheap motels. Some of those houses were large and eloquent places of business, and many ran charitable institutions as well, including orphanages, in a time when there was no government Welfare or food stamps.