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

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Updated by: 
Michal Drori Elmalem
Research notes: 
Reader Checked OA 19/02/2013
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Horst, Pieter W. van der
year: 
2012
Full title: 

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

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
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.

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Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
1Q20
Passage: 
Col. 2
URL: 
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/15700631-12341241
Label: 
03/12/2012
Record number: 
17 640