But they would counter-argue that exact same-intercourse intercourse is not a great deal of a problem to Scripture because it receives so little interest. It is no accident that bestiality receives even significantly less attention in the Bible than exact same-intercourse intercourse — it’s pointed out only in Leviticus 18:23 and 20:15-16. Incest gets only similar focus. That these stories are suitable to an indictment of very same-sexual intercourse intercourse typically is clear from: (a) the broader narratives of the two the Yahwist and the Deuteronomistic historian which somewhere else suggest a restriction of suitable sexual activity to heterosexual relations (b) historic Near Eastern texts that censure male-male intercourse for motives other than coercion (c) the assessment of Sodom’s sin by a number of later texts, which includes Ezekiel 16:50, Jude 7, and two Peter 2:7 and (d) the motifs popular to the Ham and Sodom tales on the a single hand and the denunciation of Canaanite sexual sins in Leviticus eighteen and 20, including Canaanite participation in non-coercive male-male intercourse as a basis for expulsion from the land. Also to be integrated among anti-homosex texts are a collection of texts in the Deuteronomistic historical past — Joshua via 2 Kings — that discuss disparagingly of cultic members in homosexual activity — see 1 Kings 14:24 15:12 22:46 two Kings 23:7 — grounded in the regulation of Deuteronomy — see 23:17-18 — and ongoing in the Book of Revelation — see 21:8 22:15. These texts clearly show a special revulsion for males working as receptive associates in intercourse with other males, referring to them as “puppies.” Parallel Mesopotamian texts point out that the major concern is not cult association or fees but fairly behaving sexually as though female relatively than male.
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