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Rahab (/ˈreɪhæb/;[1] Hebrew: רָחָב, Modern: Raẖav, Tiberian: Rāḥāḇ, "broad", "large", Arabic: رحاب, a vast space of a land) was, according to the Book of Joshua, a Gentile and a Canaanite woman who lived in Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites by hiding two men who had been sent to scout the city prior to their attack.[2] In the New Testament, she is lauded both as an example of a saint who lived by faith,[3] and as someone "considered righteous" for her works.[4] According to biblical research, the author intended that she did not actually contribute in conquering the city, but rather saved herself and her family from death by the Israelites' forces.[5][6

Rahab's profession
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Rahab lets the spies escape in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld
The Hebrew אשה זונה (ishah zonah), used to describe Rahab in Joshua 2:1, literally means "a prostitute woman".[8] While the Talmud holds to that interpretation, some sources in Rabbinic literature insists that she was an "innkeeper," based on Targum Jonathan and other texts (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פֻנדְקֵיתָא, romanized: pundǝqeṯā[9]). Rahab's name is presumably the shortened form of a sentence name rāḥāb-N, "the god N has opened/widened (the womb?)".[10] The Hebrew zōnâ may refer to secular or cultic prostitution, and the latter is widely believed to have been an invariable element of Canaanite religion, although recent scholarship has disputed this.[8] However, there was a separate word, qǝdēšâ, that could be used to designate ritual prostitutes.[8]

Josephus mentions that Rahab kept an inn but is silent as to whether merely renting out rooms was her only source of income.[11] It was not uncommon for both an inn and a brothel to operate within the same building; thus entering Rahab's quarters was not necessarily a deviation from Joshua's orders. Indeed, as Robert Boling notes, such an establishment might have represented an ideal location for spies to gather intelligence.[8] A number of scholars have noted that the narrator in Joshua 2 may have intended to remind the readers of the "immemorial symbiosis between military service and bawdy house".[8]

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I get pissed, amazed, and amused by the attacks on her here for her profession.

It's understandable, perhaps, from those who have led sheltered lives or a fundamentalist upbringing.

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