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A piece of learned folklore (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
adultry
pregnancy
Period
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars
Neo-Assyrian texts

Text
BRM 4 12:37:
The wife of the man, pregnant by another, will constantly pray to the goddess Ištar, saying, while looking at the face of her husband: “I shall make my child look like him!”

Gospel of Philip, NHC 2.3.78:
The children a woman bears resemble the man she loves. If she loves her husband, then they resemble her husband. If she loves an adulterer, then they resemble him. Frequently, if a woman sleeps with her husband out of necessity, while her heart is with the adulterer with whom she usually has intercourse, the child she will bear is born resembling the adulterer.

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BRM 4 12:37
Gospel of Philip, NHC 2.3.78

Bibliography

Reiner 1998, 653Reiner, Erica. “Apodoses and Logia.” In: M. Dietrich and I. Kottsieper (eds.). "Und Mose schrieb dieses Lied auf." Studien zum Alten Testament und zum Alten Orient. Festschrift für Oswald Loretz zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres mit Beiträgen von Freunden, Schülern und Kollegen. Münster: Ugarit 1998, 651-654.

Amar Annus


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