"'Virginity' has always been an approximate thing."
--Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish & Hebrew Literature James L. Kugel yesterday describing how the Hebrew words for "young woman" and "maid" were translated in biblical prose to the Greek term "virgin," in Literature & Arts C-37: The Bible & Its Interpreters.
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