What Hebrew woman would be so bold so as to put herself out in the open where she could be observed naked?
Where does the Bible say that she was naked? Where does it say that she boldly and purposefully or even neglectfully
"put herself out" where she could be observed?
You are insinuating that she was brazen.
Leviticus 15 describes how both
men and women HAD to bathe after emissions from their bodies. It gives lengthy and sort of gross detail as to a man and a woman who when they emitted natural things from their bodies caused EVERYTHING they touched to be unclean UNTIL they
ceremonially bathed and went to the priest.
And it says over and over that they were unclean until the
evening.
Between intercourse and nocturnal emissions and menstrual cycles and child birth, there was ALOT of ceremonial bathing going on. Just think of the newlyweds!! :laugh:
Bathing in those days - whether ceremonial or because you stepped in bull poop or a fell down in the mud - took place in mikvahs or around the well. It wasn't just extremely private.
If you were wealthy, you might have a family courtyard with a mikvah but it was not entirely private as it had to collect rainwater so there was no complete roof on it.
Here is a link to several pictures of ancient Hebrew mikvahs (I did misspell it the first time in my above post.)
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=i...JVeCIHcKXygTShoOwDQ#tbm=isch&q=ancient+mikvah
Orthodox Hebrews today have them in their homes and there has to be running water flowing through it as from underground.
As you can see of the ancient ones found - when both men and women ceremonially bathed in them, exposure was sometimes unavoidable. That's why people in the near east who still use outdoor ones sometimes bath covered up.
