Bitenosh's Orgasm (1QapGEn 2:9-15)

Full title
Bitenosh's Orgasm (1QapGEn 2:9-15)
Research notes

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Reference type
Author(s)
Horst, Pieter W. van der
Year
2012
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of Judaism: In the Persian Hellenistic & Roman Period
Volume
43
Issue / Series Volume
4/5
Pages
613-628
Label
03/12/2012
Abstract

It is certain that ancient Greek concepts of embryogenesis influenced Jewish theories about the coming-into-being of a foetus. In that light the enigmatic remark of Bitenosh in lQapGen 2 about her "pleasure" in response to Lamech's worried question about who fathered their child (Noah) becomes clear: she refers to her orgasm considered as a sign of her own seminal emission during their begetting of the child.

Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents
Scroll / Document
Passage
Col. 2