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A story about daughters and their father, and about Israel and two neighbor nations<\/span><\/p>\n

Are Lot’s nameless daughters mad or sane? Getting their father drunk so they can couple with him and steal his sperm?! Leaving aside, momentarily, the question what they thought was happening in the rest of the world, and why they thought this was the only chance for them to procreate, I’ll focus on the matter of them raping their father.<\/span><\/p>\n

On one hand, is this not an act of revenge against their own father who was willing to throw them to the howling mob for the sole purpose of gang rape? But \u2013 why would <\/span>their<\/span><\/em> raping their sorry excuse for a father satisfy that need? Seeing it thus would, at most, present the <\/span>poetic<\/span><\/em> justice of their acts, “measure for measure”, meted out to the “Righteous Man of Sodom”, but would not give a victim the lost sense of protection and vindication she needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aside from the obvious fact that this story is clearly told from a male perspective, we must recognize that its purpose is external to itself: Abravanel says: \u00a0“This story was told to teach the closeness of these two nations, Ammon and Moab, with Israel, and therefore [i.e., lest we get too chummy with them] The Blessed One commanded “No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord … ” (Deut. 23:4).<\/span><\/p>\n

We can bring proof for this understanding of the story of Lot and his daughters from the preceding verse in Deuteronomy 23:2 which states that “no one <\/span>misbegotten<\/span><\/em> shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If so, the story in Genesis 19 is not about the pursuit of justice revenge by the daughters of Lot, but an etiological story which explains the necessary future estrangement, and frequently, animosity, between Israel and its two cousin \u2013 nations. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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