In Deutronomy 22 5 it's says a man shall not dress as a woman or a woman as a man. This part of the bible was codified 500-400 BCE. Does this mean that public cross dressing has been going on for over 2500 years?
Josephine GreenOK so we've now established that intersex has existed for a long time. But I was thinking that to codify a rule in the Torah there must have been enough cross-dressing (both ways) to worry the religious authorities back then. If it was very uncommon why... moreOK so we've now established that intersex has existed for a long time. But I was thinking that to codify a rule in the Torah there must have been enough cross-dressing (both ways) to worry the religious authorities back then. If it was very uncommon why codify a rule?
Pauline SmithI think the people who wrote the Torah were up there with the Puritans and Muslims as intolerant bigots. I am part way through reading Simon Schama's History of the Jews (I am around 300BC right now...and it's heavy going) and there are a lot of rules... moreI think the people who wrote the Torah were up there with the Puritans and Muslims as intolerant bigots. I am part way through reading Simon Schama's History of the Jews (I am around 300BC right now...and it's heavy going) and there are a lot of rules and behaviours written so they become retroactive. I think you are right Jo in assuming there were lots of cross dressers and others who worried the priests (though many of said priests were very iffy)...Sodom and Gomorrah spring to mind. Anyone who falls outside the norm is deviant, and its always useful to have the threat of God (or his "chosen" instrument - they usually choose themselves and have a "direct line" to the G man) to strike cross dressers down with a thunderbolt? P xxx
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