Message: "Pavlos, you're in Greece, aren't you?"

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Pavlos, you're in Greece, aren't you?

by Andrea (guest)

8/19/2001, 9:42 PM

I took a college course called "Women in Antiquity." I learned that in ancient Greece, when women got pregnant out of wedlock, they would say that a god had impregnated them, so that instead of being looked at as a bastard, their child would be favored as a demi-god.

And wasn't the New Testament written in Greek?

Thanks,
Andrea

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- Pavlos (guest) +1

8/20/2001, 2:05 AM

True on all accounts! Brilliant thinking :)
As a matter of fact, there are recorded cases of husbands boasting about how their wives were "honored" by gods within temples. The old "I-pretend-to-be-a-god-to-pork-one's-wife" trick :)

- Andrea (guest)

8/20/2001, 8:24 AM

LOL! No, I didn't know about that trick! Don't think it would work now-a-days! Especially at my shul!

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