Some revisionists openly wonder whether the sexual practices of paganism are mostly in the eye of the beholder. They point out that “ qedeshah ,” the Hebrew word that is rendered in conventional Bible scholarship as “temple prostitute,” literally means “a consecrated woman.”
A fresh reading of ancient texts and archaeological evidence leads some recent scholars to believe that a qedeshah was not a sacred whore at all but a midwife, a wet nurse or perhaps a sorceress.
“Tragically,” writes Bible critic Mayer I. Gruber, “scholarship suffered from scholars being unable to imagine any cultic role for women in antiquity that did not involve sexual intercourse.”
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