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  • n  a woman adulterer

  • In early Babylonian and Hebrew societies, a married woman who was raped suffered the same fate as an adulteress -- death by stoning or drowning.
  • He wrote of transvestism, stalking, sexual blackmail, castration, impotence, masochism, necrophilia and an adulteress forced to eat her lover's corpse.
  • For example, Bell thinks he knows the mysterious words Jesus wrote in the dust while defending the adulteress ("He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone," etc.
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    Please login to view the requested resource. John Clem is Biblically accurate in retelling that the men attempting to stone the adulteress were challenged by Jesus to examine their own lives (“ Jesus Wouldn’t Care About Titled Kilt , ” May 31)....
    June 17, 2013 - The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record
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  • Javier Marias in guardian.co.uk
    Good God,Marías wrote in Dark Back of Time, which, nine years later, explored the extraordinary ways All Souls impinged upon his real life, "as a result of my novel there is now a professor at Oxford whom everyone believes to be an adulteress,...

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