sodomites - the "temple prostitute" translation error

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Deuteronomy 23:17 (AV)
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 14:24 (AV)
And there were also sodomites in the land:
and they did according to all the abominations of the nations
which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 15:12 (AV)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land,
and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:46 (AV)
And the remnant of the sodomites,
which remained in the days of his father Asa,
he took out of the land.

2 Kings 23:7 (AV)
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites,
that were by the house of the LORD,
where the women wove hangings for the grove.
 
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1 Corinthians 6:9-19 (KJV) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
 
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Wikipedia - Sacred Prostitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution

Baugh, S. M. (September 1999). "Cult Prostitution In New Testament Ephesus: A Reappraisal". Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 42 (3): 443–460. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

Budin 2008; more briefly the case that there was no sacred prostitution in Greco-Roman Ephesus Baugh 1999; see also the book review by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, April 28, 2009 Archived 12 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine.

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biblicalstudies.org.uk (was in JETS)
Cult Prostitution in New Testament Ephesus: A Reappraisal
S.M. Baugh*
https://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_ephesus_baugh.html

Karel van der Toorn in the Anchor Bible Dictionary, for instance, reports: "In recent years, however, the widely accepted hypothesis of cultic prostitution has been seriously challenged. Various scholars have argued that the current view rests on unwarranted assumptions, doubtful anthropological premises, and very little evidence."[2] After a brief survey of the evidence, van der Toorn concludes, "In short, both the evidence from the OT and the Akkadian and Ugaritic data do not support the hypothesis of 'cultic prostitution.'"[3] Van der Toorn does find "prostitution that was profitable to, and at times organized by, the temple and its administration," but "there is no need to postulate the existence of sacred prostitution in the service of a fertility cult.”[4]
 
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Deuteronomy 23:17 (AV)
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Steven
That verse has no “temple” in view
The NKJV doesn’t want to say sodomite, they switch to pervert.
Other versions have the temple prostitute nonsense

Sharon
NKJV Ritual is in italics!
"There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel,
or a perverted one of the sons of Israel."

The parallel of daughter and of sons is off.
Perverted one rather than sodomite.

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NKJV blunder
https://books.google.com/books?id=H-kTEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA254

Some of the new translations

ritual harlot
cult prostitute
temple prostitute
shrine prostitute

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Stephanie Lynn Budin
http://independent.academia.edu/StephanieBudin
http://womenalsoknowhistory.com/individual-scholar-page/?pdb=1588

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge
https://college-de-france.academia.edu/VincianePirenneDelforge
https://www.college-de-france.fr/en...ty-in-the-ancient-greek-world-statutory-chair

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REVIEW by
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge,
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS (Belgium)--
Universite de Liege, v.pirenne@ulg.ac.be

BMCR 2009.04.28
The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (2008)
Budin, Stephanie Lynn
https://archive.org/details/stephanie-lynn-budin-the-myth-of-sacred-prostitution-in-antiquity
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xi, 366. ISBN 9780521880909.

REVIEW by Vinciane
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.04.28

“Sacred prostitution never existed in the ancient Near East or Mediterranean”

“Sacred prostitution is the sale of a person’s body for sexual purposes where some portion (if not all) of the money or goods received for this transaction belongs to a deity”
 
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Studies of the Hebrew and Greek words
Hebrew
zonah “prostitute,”
qedesha

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/israelinbibleprophecytoday/posts/9962503017160177/
Corrupted Scriptures in the New Living Translation
  • Deuteronomy - "sodomite" changed to "temple prostitute"
  • 1 Kings 14:24 - "sodomites" replaced with "shrine prostitutes"
  • 1 Kings 15:12 - "sodomites" replaced with "shrine prostitutes"
  • 1 Kings 22:46 - "sodomites" replaced with "shrine prostitutes"
  • 2 Kings 23:7 - "sodomites" replaced with "shrine prostitutes"
sowingtheseed.org

Looking in Vain for the Temple Prostitute

Our series on the power of words features a reflexive research essay by Abby Sanders. Her exegesis of “the temple prostitute” of Genesis 38 turned into an odyssey through the languages and desires …
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What is sacred prostitution?
https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/21359/what-is-sacred-prostitution
 
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Will Kinney
2025
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2018
https://www.facebook.com/willjkinne...Qd1scEXnDWkKv4K3mNVz9LxmmzryEnTSZxV3Fd8azbU3l

The first major version to change this to "male cult prostitutes" was the liberal RSV of 1952. Then in 1972, the NASB translated this word as sodomite in 1 Kings 22:46, but the other four times changed it to "shrine prostitutes". The NASB 1995 edition also had Sodomite this one time, but now in the new NASB 2020 edition it removed the word and now has “cult prostitutes” in all 5 examples.

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A sodomite may think his sin is not condemned by Scripture, because he is no shrine prostitute. The NKJV has translated all five instances as "perverted person". What exactly is a perverted person? Is that someone who eats ketchup sandwiches? What might be one man's perversion is another's proper behavior. You see, how vague and undefined the term "perverted person" is?
 
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