AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThou shalt not alter thy body? I don't remember that onelemmy.mlimagemessage-square102linkfedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down128
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minus-square100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoI don’t know enough about transgender people in ancient times to argue about the definition of “eununch”. Thanks for your contribution, though.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoMatthew was written about 80 CE. Nero was emperor until 68. Nero rather famously took a eunuch as a “wife”, Sporus, which most in the Roman empire and likely the author of Matthew would have been aware of.
I don’t know enough about transgender people in ancient times to argue about the definition of “eununch”. Thanks for your contribution, though.
Matthew was written about 80 CE. Nero was emperor until 68. Nero rather famously took a eunuch as a “wife”, Sporus, which most in the Roman empire and likely the author of Matthew would have been aware of.