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[โ€“] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Way back before the Jesus era, back in the time of Solomon, there's some modern scholarship that claims evidence that Asherah was worshipped at the Jerusalem temple as the consort of Yahweh. And this worship would have included sacred temple prostitutes.

I don't know if that's related to what you're talking about or not.

[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It most certainly is, thanks!

Of course these are and probably will remain forever speculations that compete with other speculations that are pushed heavily by christian churches, but I was now able to find a few articles that offer better explanations for the nonsense of "immaculate conception":

  • Several claim that Mary did indeed work as a temple prostitute (or rather temple virgin) right until she got married to Joseph.
  • Both such temples and the idea of virgin conception were nothing new at the time, not to Jews, not to other religions.
  • Original bible texts don't even claim virginity for Mary; the word is "almah" which just means young woman.

Such dirty thought was pushed out pretty soon, or transfered to Mary Magdalene. I'm not sure who went full patriarchy & misogyny (not saying Jews weren't that at the time, but I get the impression they looked at such things more openly) first, but I suspect the turncoat Saulus/Paulus once again.

https://taylormarshall.com/2011/12/did-jewish-temple-virgins-exist-and-was.html
https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/mary-was-a-cult-prostitute-8f4bcdcf5d16
This one's outright fishy: https://www.e-seminary.org/twm/mary/virgin.html