Dirt, Greed, and Sex

adultery ancient israel argued Bible and Homosexual biblical Christ church circumcision committed concern context Corinthians culture deut distinction divorce early Christian essenes faith father female flesh gender Genesis Gentiles God’s Gospel Greco-roman Greek harlotry Holiness Code homosexual household human husband idolatry impurity incest interpretation israelite issue Jesus Jewish Jewish Christians Jews Judaism kind language leviticus luke luke’s male male-male man’s marriage married Matthew means menstruating modern moral offense one’s passage Paul Paul’s person Pharisees Philo physical purity pleonexia porneia principle prohibition prostitutes purity code purity law purity rules purity system Qumran reference reign rejection relationship romans same-gender sexual same-gender sexual acts scripture sense sexual ethics sexual intercourse sexual property simply sins slave social sodom song of songs specific stoic suggests teaching temple testament theology things tion torah tradition unclean violation wife woman women writings