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[in the Protevangelium of James]: when the midwife’s friend Salome attempts a manual gynaecological investigation of the mother [Mary], her offending hands miraculously catch fire
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In Russia a greater worry was [lesbians’] link to widely surviving pre-Christian religious practices. So the common term for lesbians was the same as for female leaders in such cults: baby bogomerzskie, which may be translated delightfully and not inaccurately as ‘God-insulting grannies’.
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Theologians over the centuries, taking their cue from the statements in Gen. 1.26–27 that God made humanity in his own image and likeness, have […] generally ignored or explained away the complication that this same passage goes on to tell us that ‘male and female created he them’: does that mean that God is likewise male and female?
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? And the moral of this story is that midwifery is forbidden? Or that the holy virginal vulva is too holy for medical investigation?
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Salome was a kind of female “doubting Thomas”, so I think the idea is that she was punished for not believing when she was told that Mary had given birth “virginally”
Warwick wrote: "Salome was a kind of female “doubting Thomas”, so I think the idea is that she was punished for not believing when she was told that Mary had given birth “virginally”"Thanks, ok it is the lack of faith that is punished!
