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The Women of Asherah : Weaving Wickedness in 2 Kings 23:7

In this essay, I examine a long-standing crux interpretum in 2 Kgs 23:7 that reads, "And he tore down the homes of the male prostitutes, which were in the temple of Yhwh; where the women were weaving ther for the Asherah." Though a number of proposals have been offered for understanding the crux, most have opted for an ad sensum interpretation that renders as curtain, tent, vestment, or other woven object that one might find in a sacred precint. Nevertheless, I submit that, while the passage indeed describes the role that women played in producing textiles for the Asherah cult, the pervasive association of weaving with spiders also evokes a widespread androcentric stereotype that associates weaving women with female sexuality, deception, and entrapment. In turn, this enables us to understand as idiomatic for "webs."

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THE CATHOLIC BIBLICAL QUARTERLY; Vol.83 No.2 April 2021

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p. 208-219

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English

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SEXUALITY
ENTRAPMENT
DECEPTION
SPIDER
DOUBLE ENTENDRE

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Scott B. Noegel

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