Category: clobber
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More Than Just Male and Female: The Six Genders in Classical Judaism
Christianity came out of Judaism, so Jesus was a Jew and grew up with the classical Jewish understanding of gender. It’s very easy to assume that Judaism is an exclusively gender-binary religion as the Jewish obligation to observe commandments is traditionally divided along male/female lines: men pray three times daily, while women don’t have to;…
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Trajectory of Scripture – Outside to Inside Holiness
TLDR – Too Long Didn’t Read SummaryIn the Old Testament holiness was synonymous with physical perfection and people thought Holiness came from the outside. Many rules were created around how you could be made unholy by things like illness or disability or touching or eating or wearing the wrong thing or hanging out with the…