Sodomy: Difference between revisions

 

==Understandings of “The Sins of Sodom”==

[[Leviticus 18]] lists various sexual crimes, which, according to verses 27 and 28, would result in the land being “defiled.”:

 

 

The [[Qur'an]] makes a more explicit scriptural connection between homosexual aggression and Sodom. The city name ‘Sodom’ does not appear there, but the Sodomites are referred to as “the people of [[Lut]] (Lot).” Lot is the nephew of the Hebrew/Arabic patriarch [[Abraham]] and, in the Judaic Sodom stories, is head of the only family allowed by God to survive Sodom's destruction. In the Qur'an, he is also the divinely appointed national prophet to his people. Since their national name was unrecorded and “people of Lot” was the only available designation, the Islamic equivalent of ‘sodomy’ has become ‘liwat,’ which could be roughly translated as “lottishness” (see [[Homosexuality and Islam]]).

 

==First century Christian and Jewish opinions==