[Avodah] Sodom bed [was Torah Homeschooling|

[Zev Sero]

T613K at aol.com wrote:

> You are hardly the first to notice the close similarity between the 
> Procrustean bed and the Sodom bed.  The chance that this story arose 
> twice, independently, is nil.  The odds that the Greeks took it from 
> us are slight, but it is possible.  Far more likely IMO is the third 
> possibility you mentioned, that Chazal took a commonly known Greek story 
> floating around in the air of their time and used it to illustrate the 
> kind of thing that went on in Sodom.

What about the possibility that the story just might be true?  If it
is, then no explanation is needed for how it came down to the Greeks.


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