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The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Paperback)
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The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Paperback)
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In this study, Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred
prostitution, the sale of a person s body for sex in which some or
all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not
exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the
ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman texts, and the Early Christian
authors, Budin shows that the majority of sources that have
traditionally been understood as pertaining to sacred prostitution
actually have nothing to do with this institution. The few texts
that are usually invoked on this subject are, moreover, terribly
misunderstood. Furthermore, contrary to many current hypotheses,
the creation of the myth of sacred prostitution has nothing to do
with notions of accusation or the construction of a decadent,
Oriental Other. Instead, the myth has come into being as a result
of more than 2,000 years of misinterpretations, false assumptions,
and faulty methodology. The study of sacred prostitution is,
effectively, a historiographical reckoning."
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