Can a Man Commit πορνεία with His Wife?

In Classical and Hellenistic Greek, apart from use by Jewish and Christian authors, ... meant "prostitution." Different words from the same word group (built on ...) all had something to do with prostitution. ... denoted a female prostitute, while ... referred to a male prostitute who migh...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Biblical literature 2018, Vol.137 (2), p.383-398
Hauptverfasser: Wheeler-Reed, David, Knust, Jennifer W, Martin, Dale B
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Zusammenfassung:In Classical and Hellenistic Greek, apart from use by Jewish and Christian authors, ... meant "prostitution." Different words from the same word group (built on ...) all had something to do with prostitution. ... denoted a female prostitute, while ... referred to a male prostitute who might be paid for sex with a man or a woman. ... referred to a brothel, and some form of the verb ... referred to one prostituting oneself or someone else. ... referred to a pimp. Somewhere along the way, a group of words that in Greek and Latin seem to have originally referred simply to prostitution became in English a word referring, in most people's usage, to any sexual intercourse outside the bonds of marriage. But is that all that Paul or other New Testament writers mean when they condemn or warn against ...? In other words, does ... when used by a New Testament writer refer only to "extramarital sex" between a man and a woman, or does it include other activities also? This article suggests that the answer varies depending on whom you ask.
ISSN:0021-9231
1934-3876
DOI:10.15699/jbl.1372.2018.345030