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PRESENTATION - Sex and Sanctity. Lot and His Daughter and The Lutheran Reformation
PRESENTATION - Sex and Sanctity. Lot and His Daughter and The Lutheran Reformation
Albrecht Altdorfer, Lot and his daughters (1537), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve (1528), Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Baptism from the Weimar Altarpiece (1555), Stadtkirche
Sankt Peter und Paul, Weimar
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Dying Man (1518), Museum der bildenden Knste,
Leipzig
Deuteronomy 22
Rape of a virgin
Daughter-in-law
Male Homosexuality: with a male as
with a woman
Daughter or Mother
Sisters
Sister-in-law
London, British Library ms. Egerton 1894, Lot entertaining the Angels at the Gates of
Sodom, 1st half of 14th century
Joachim Patinier, Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom (ca. 1520), Museum
Bojimans Van Beuningen
But his daughters, thinking that all mankind were destroyed, approached to their
father, (24) though taking care not to be perceived. This they did, that human
kind might not utterly fail []
Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews I, 25.
Lot enjoyed four great benefits in accompanying Abraham []. Yet Ammon and
Moab (Lot's descendants) inflicted four great sorrows upon Abraham's
descendants, to whom they owed their very existence [] the fate of Ammon
and Moab will be like that of Sodom and Gomorrah. Once a man, twice a child.
Genesis Rabbah, 51, 8.
... he seems to me to be found partly culpable and partly excusable. For indeed
he can be excused because he is free of the offence of concupiscence and
pleasure and because he himself is shown neither to have wished nor to have
consented to those. But he is at fault because he could be trapped, because he
indulged in wine too much, and this not once, but he did a second time.
Origen, Homilies on Genesis V.
Excusantur autem filiae sancti Lot, quia putaverunt non vicinae regionis, sed
totius orbis fuisse illud excidium, et se solas cum patre superstites ex omnibus
populis remansisse. Et ideo ne genus deficeret humanum, paternum petiisse
concubitum; ut semen generationis humanae de patre suo resuscitarent. Non
ergo libidinis vitium fuit, sed generationis remedium []
Ambrose of Milan, De Abraham I, 6, 56.
VISUAL ALLEGORY
Paris, Bibliothque Nationale ms. fr. 9561, The Destruction of Sodom compared with
the Withdrawal of the Monks, XIV A.D
Martin Luther's
COMMENTARIVM IN GENESIM XIX
Etsi igitur non defendo Lothum (homo enim fuit et humani
aliquid pati, ac nudum factum tantum, non ipsum cor nobis
patet) tamen circumstantiae me cogunt, ut statuam, facere Loth
esse inculpabile.
Martin Luther, Exegetica Opera Latina IV, 19.
Martin Luther's
COMMENTARIVM IN GENESIM XIX
Quae enim nobis causa, ut tam sollicite de sanctorum peccati
excusandi
laboremus?
Fuerunt
homines,
igitur
periculis
Martin Luther's
COMMENTARIVM IN GENESIM XIX
[] Quod Loth, quod Abraham fecit, imitare non debes. [] Hoc est exemplum
transferre in jus, et ex facto, regulam facere. [] Sed Loth, Abraham et similes sunt
miraculosi
viri,
quorum
spiritus
rapitur
extra
legem,
extra
exemplum
et
Martin Luther's
COMMENTARIVM IN GENESIM XIX
Tu times in Deo, et credis in Deo: non igitur lex, sed evangelion
ad te pertinet. At tu evangelion relinquis, et arripis legem, quae
non ad te, sed ad duros et securos pertinet.
Martin Luther, Exegetica Opera Latina, IV, 19.
Lucas van Leyden, Lot and his daughters (ca. 1529), Paris, Musee du Louvre