-
recent scholarship has
disputed this. However,
there was a
separate word,
qǝdēšâ, that
could be used to
designate ritual prostitutes.
Josephus mentions that...
- by R.I.
Alyaseer & A.I. Alyaseer",
Liliania Bookish, July 6, 2017 "Lasto
Qedesa proves that love and
power never meet",
Middle East Online, June 12, 2018...
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April 2014.
Retrieved 5
April 2014. Westenholtz, Joan (July 1989). "Tamar,
Qědēšā, Qadištu, and
Sacred Prostitution in Mesopotamia".
Harvard Theological Review...
- and Gesenius's
Lexicon (1857). Also
transliterated qĕdeshah, qedeshah,
qědēšā ,qedashah, kadeshah, kadesha, qedesha, kdesha. A
modern liturgical pronunciation...
- (who was
later deified as Kubaba). In the
Hebrew Bible, Hebrew: קְדֵשָׁה
qědēšā,
derived from the root Q-D-Š were
sacred prostitutes usually ****ociated...
- and Gesenius's
Lexicon (1857). Also
transliterated qĕdeshah, qedeshah,
qědēšā ,qedashah, kadeshah, kadesha, qedesha, kdesha. Gillam,
Robyn A. (1995)....
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Qědēšā, Qadištu, and
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