Note 112 — FIRST SECTION.

Michaelis, “Mosaisches Recht,” (Mosaic Law), Pt. V. p. 304. From 1 Kings Ch. 3. v. 16. it might indeed be gathered that such establishments were in existence; but strictly speaking the passage proves only that two women of this character dwelt in a particular house. Comp. Philo, De special. legg. (Works ed. Mangey, Vol. II. p. 308.). The maidens’ chambers that according to 2 Kings, Ch. 17. v. 30. were set up in the precincts of the Temple at Jerusalem were cells with figures of Astarté, in which the Jewish maidens offered themselves to the goddess, and so in fact though not in name brothels.