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subject	book bibliographic info
kiss	Berglund Crostini and Kelhoffer (2022), Why We Sing: Music, Word, and Liturgy in Early Christianity, 57, 309 Blidstein (2017), Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature, 160, 163, 179 Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 75, 250, 251 Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 15, 16, 53, 62, 109, 119, 125, 126, 136, 154, 176, 188, 191, 193, 203, 214 Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014), Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity, 140, 141, 142, 144, 162
kiss, feet of goddess, kissing, hand of priest, people	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 17, 268
kiss, holy	Alikin (2009), The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering, 64, 97, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260
kiss, of god	Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014), Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity, 142
kiss, of judas, knowledge/instruction motif, the	Scopello (2008), The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 120, 138
kiss, of peace, passion of perpetua and felicitas	Moss (2010), The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom, 70
kissed, feet wiped with face of initiate, isis, feet of	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 320
kissed, feet wiped with face, feet, of goddess	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 320
kissed, feet, of goddess	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 17, 268
kissed, isis, feet of	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 17, 268
kissed, lucius set before, feet, of goddess	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 290
kissed, lucius set before, isis, feet of	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 290
kissed, thoroughly	Masterson (2016), Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood. 146, 147
kisses	Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 58, 59, 89, 104, 125, 133, 139, 140, 144, 156
kisses, achilles and neoptolemus	Greensmith (2021), The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation, 266, 267, 268
kisses, as oral and written torah	Lieber (2014), A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue, 117, 169
kissing, amulets	Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 81, 82
kissing, betrothal, by	Monnickendam (2020), Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity: Betrothal, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian, 52
kissing, hand of kisses, priest, seven	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 113, 249
kissing, hand of priest	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 6, 161
kissing, judgment	Moss (2010), The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom, 70
kissing, masks, and	Richlin (2018), Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, 112, 290, 300

List of validated texts:

3 validated results for "kiss"

1. Hebrew Bible, Song of Songs, 1.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Kiss • Kiss, Kissing • Kiss, Kissing, as metaphor, in the Midrash • Kiss, Kissing, of God’s mouth • Kiss, Kissing, of the Torah, purifying role of • Torah, kissing as giving the • kisses, as oral and written Torah

Found in books: Kosman (2012), Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism, 139; Lieber (2014), A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue, 117, 169; Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014), Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity, 144

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1.2 יִשָּׁקֵנִי מִנְּשִׁיקוֹת פִּיהוּ כִּי־טוֹבִים דֹּדֶיךָ מִיָּיִן׃'' None

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1.2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— For thy love is better than wine.'' None

2. Hebrew Bible, Ezekiel, 36.26 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Kiss • Kiss, Kissing • Kiss, Kissing, as metaphor, in the Midrash • Kiss, Kissing, of God’s mouth • Kiss, Kissing, of the Torah, purifying role of • Torah, kissing as giving the

Found in books: Kosman (2012), Gender and Dialogue in the Rabbinic Prism, 139; Poorthuis and Schwartz (2014), Saints and role models in Judaism and Christianity, 144

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36.26 וְנָתַתִּי לָכֶם לֵב חָדָשׁ וְרוּחַ חֲדָשָׁה אֶתֵּן בְּקִרְבְּכֶם וַהֲסִרֹתִי אֶת־לֵב הָאֶבֶן מִבְּשַׂרְכֶם וְנָתַתִּי לָכֶם לֵב בָּשָׂר׃'' None

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36.26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.'' None

3. Athenagoras, Apology Or Embassy For The Christians, 32 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • holy kiss • kiss

Found in books: Alikin (2009), The Earliest History of the Christian Gathering, 258; Blidstein (2017), Purity Community and Ritual in Early Christian Literature, 179

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32 It is, however, nothing wonderful that they should get up tales about us such as they tell of their own gods, of the incidents of whose lives they make mysteries. But it behooved them, if they meant to condemn shameless and promiscuous intercourse, to hate either Zeus, who begot children of his mother Rhea and his daughter Koré, and took his own sister to wife, or Orpheus, the inventor of these tales, which made Zeus more unholy and detestable than Thyestes himself; for the latter defiled his daughter in pursuance of an oracle, and when he wanted to obtain the kingdom and avenge himself. But we are so far from practising promiscuous intercourse, that it is not lawful among us to indulge even a lustful look. For, says He, he that looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery already in his heart. Matthew 5:28 Those, then, who are forbidden to look at anything more than that for which God formed the eyes, which were intended to be a light to us, and to whom a wanton look is adultery, the eyes being made for other purposes, and who are to be called to account for their very thoughts, how can any one doubt that such persons practice self-control? For our account lies not with human laws, which a bad man can evade (at the outset I proved to you, sovereign lords, that our doctrine is from the teaching of God), but we have a law which makes the measure of rectitude to consist in dealing with our neighbour as ourselves. On this account, too, according to age, we recognise some as sons and daughters, others we regard as brothers and sisters, and to the more advanced in life we give the honour due to fathers and mothers. On behalf of those, then, to whom we apply the names of brothers and sisters, and other designations of relationship, we exercise the greatest care that their bodies should remain undefiled and uncorrupted; for the Logos again says to us, If any one kiss a second time because it has given him pleasure, he sins; adding, Therefore the kiss, or rather the salutation, should be given with the greatest care, since, if there be mixed with it the least defilement of thought, it excludes us from eternal life. '' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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