Boswell claims inhospitable not homosexual acts in Judges 19:22
The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, a painting by John Martin (painter), died 1854, thus 100 years. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Boswell and others argue that the account in Judges 19:22ff. also refers only to inhospitality or violence. We all can agree that the writer of Judges has clearly modeled his telling of the story on Genesis 19 , and we should interpret them the same way.36 Although Boswell claims that “Jews and Christians have overwhelmingly failed to interpret this story as one of homosexuality,”37 he fails to back up this claim with any sources. A footnote admits that some sources have interpreted the act as sodomy. Although the definitions for sodomy have been wide enough to include several sexual vices, no one has tried to include inhospitality as a possible meaning, except in the sense that all sexual attacks are inhospitable. The Levite could hardly view the interest of the men of Gibeah as simply an inhospitable act. In Judges 20:5–6, he recoun...