made a connection with the creation story, understood as limiting sexual union to heterosexual intercourse. Whatever rationale people might have brought to the prohibitions, these prohibitions were certainly understood subsequently as absolute and, as we shall see, extended also to same-sex relations between women. The creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2 make no reference to a homosexual possibility, but present humankind as created male and female in the first account of creation
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