Originally posted by One Bad Pig
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Concerning the unmarried Jesus, while it's true that most Jewish males were expected to get married by 18-20, Daryl Bock points out in his works (i.e. Breaking the Da Vinci Code) that pious Jews who were devoted to a celibate lifestyle were shown respect in a number of early Jewish texts.
But anyhow, most of this is tertiary I suppose. I still feel that there are probably conditional ethical elements here that make the similarities between Joseph and Moore pretty much pointless.
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