The Threshing Floor A Place Associated With Sexual Activity

Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

The threshing floor a place associated with sexual activity.

Then go down to the threshing floor but don t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. Sex on the threshing floor. Do not rejoice o israel with joy like other peoples for you have played the harlot against your god. 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.

So what is the point of calling attention to the fact that boaz will be at the threshing floor that evening. The story takes place within the ethical landscape of its own time. 4 when he lies down note the place where he is lying. In hosea 9 1 yhwh declares.

The threshing floor was the place where this activity took place. Naomi s plan to provide security for herself and ruth by arranging a levirate marriage with boaz is overtly sexual. 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. In hosea 9 1 yhwh declares.

Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. 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. The threshing floor was a place associated with sexual congress both licit and illicit. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

3 wash put on perfume and get dressed in your best clothes. She lies at his feet until morning. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor. 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.

It is a picture of blessing and judgment and i will explain that as i go along. One thought on episode 2 3 what happens on the threshing floor pingback. 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. Do not rejoice o israel with joy like other peoples for you have played the harlot against your god.

Boaz in any case has ruth stay all night. 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.