It’s not “my” narrative though.

You’re not wrong but I don’t think it was common to do self-sacrifice in ancient societies unless for one’s god.

Sorry, no backpedaling happened.

But it is a great natural source of self-righteousness.

Like two bowling balls fighting in a sock.

TV’s super nasty nowadays. They’ve got to keep up in the arms...no, sorry...booty race that cable started. At this point, we will have flaccid wang within the decade on prime time network TV.

If they reveal any info or gossip, they have to reveal it all.

She’s gonna be keeping an eye on us.

I’m imagining Prince in the afterlife, strumming his electrified lyre and creating a brand new bop named, “I’m dead and I don’t give a shit, y’all on your own.”

I think it’s because he’s the center of the story. In the moral tale created here, showing the correct behavior of a man is explained. To say in the telling of the tale that the man should have offered himself up would have offended the sensibilities of males of the time.

Rape of male and females was very very common in ancient Middle Eastern and Greek societies. Male rape remains a huge problem in rural societies especially in the Middle East to this day.

Katy Perry, like Taylor Swift, is an acknowledged and proven epicenter of Internet drama. Not as craven and fake as Swift but certainly a drama queen.

*shrug* At least two other commenters admitted that s/he too had conflated this with the story of Lot so...it’s only b.s. to you. Which is not my problem.

And you’ve been entranced by my every single word.

Oh, well. I can live with that considering we’re both playing the same game here of commenting.

So there was no difference in the treatment of male vs. female indentured servants under the laws/rules?

The historical merit is the point. And that merit is in presenting cultural mores and behavior in an anecdotal way as well as a codified way, that came from an oral tradition ONLY present in the Bible and Torah.

I care. A couple of centuries of theologians, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and, later, psychologists, cared.

Interesting. I didn’t know that. I’ll look into that about male/female servants vs. slaves.

“Hospitality” is the damn word I could not remember!