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| Title: Homosexuals or Prostitutes? The Meaning of ARSENOKOITAI (1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10) Pages: 125-153 Type: Generic Year: 1984 Abstract: "The presumption is created that arsenokoitia came into use, under the influence of the LXX of Leviticus, to denote that homoerotic vice which Jewish writers like Philo, Josephus, Paul and PS-Phocylides regarded as a signal token of pagan Greek depravity. It is not apparent that investigation of the sources of the New Testament's Lasterkataloge serves to establish further than this the meaning of the term. but it is probably significant that the word itself and comparable phrases used by Philo, Josephus and Ps-Phocylides spoke generically of male activity with males rather than specifically categorised male sexual engagement with paides." Keywords: History of Terms, language, style |