Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Stoning Message-ID: <508@unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:29:05 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.508 Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:29:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:31:12 EDT References: <612@sfmag.UUCP> <11333@brl-tgr.ARPA>Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 28 Summary: > In article <612@sfmag.UUCP> samet@sfmag.UUCP (A.I.Samet) writes: > > > > 1) The sin of male homosexuality is punishable by death by skila > > (stoning). Of the 4 methods of execution, skila is the most > > severe. The only other sexual offenses punishable by skila are > > certain types of incest, and having sex with an animal. By > > contrast, adultery is punishable by lesser forms of execution. > Was this not true in biblical (Roman occupation) times? I ask because > there is a well-known New Testament Christian story most commonly > referred to as "The woman taken in adultery". [The story is that Jesus > comes across a scene in which a woman who had been caught in adultery is > about to be stoned to death. He intervenes, says "Let he who is without > sin cast the first stone", and the crowd disperses. He then forgives the > woman.] > > Anyway, this incident depicts a woman guilty only of adultery being > subject to stoning, supposedly in a typical 1st-century Jewish > community. Would it be that the distinction between the different death > sentences was not made until later, or only by an official court, like > the Sanhedrin (if they would get involved in such), and not in an > ordinary village? Maybe that's why Jesus stopped the stoning -- it was illegal under Jewish law. Frank Silbermann