So what is the point of calling attention to the fact that boaz will be at the threshing floor that evening.
The threshing floor a place associated with sexual activity.
Whether sexual intercourse takes place on the threshing floor is not stated though amy jill levine notes that threshing floors were associated with sexual activity and that the hebrew word for skirt kanap can also connote genitals reinforcing the sexual subtext.
In hosea 9 1 yhwh declares.
The story takes place within the ethical landscape of its own time.
You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
Do not rejoice o israel with joy like other peoples for you have played the harlot against your god.
Do not rejoice o israel with joy like other peoples for you have played the harlot against your god.
4 when he lies down note the place where he is lying.
The activity of treading grain with the feet on a threshing floor for the purpose of producing in this instance barley seed has a transferred meaning at the human level.
Boaz in any case has ruth stay all night.
I believe it is reasonable to infer from deuteronomy 16 13 15 and hosea 9 1 2 that there was a certain amount of celebration associated with the threshing floor because this threshing took place at the end of the grain harvest.
Ruth is to go to the threshing floor a place associated with sexual activity wait until boaz has finished eating and drinking a possible allusion to the story of lot and his daughters ancestors through incest of the.
The threshing floor was a place associated with sexual congress both licit and illicit.
Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
In hosea 9 1 yhwh declares.
It is a picture of blessing and judgment and i will explain that as i go along.
You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
Naomi s plan to provide security for herself and ruth by arranging a levirate marriage with boaz is overtly sexual.
The assumption is in fact that sexual harassment and violence are common during the harvest and that boaz is not doing anything to stop it.
It was a level windy place where the grain was separated from the chaff.
To tread with or out 3 but certainly with the feet a woman alludes in most cultures to intercourse4 often with the association of procreating.
Then go and uncover his feet and lie down.
The threshing floor was the place where this activity took place.
She lies at his feet until morning.
One thought on episode 2 3 what happens on the threshing floor pingback.
4 5 sex kabobs retelling the bible.
The threshing floor was the place where this activity took place.
The threshing floor was a place associated with sexual congress both licit and illicit.
