L’ospitalità negata e il disfacimento di una società: i casi emblematici di Lot a Sodoma in Gn 19 e del crimine di Gabaa in Gdc 19

Rizzi, Giovanni2023-11-042023-11-042023"The Biblical Annals", 2023, T. 13, nr 4, s. 519-5452083-2222https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/5936Hospitality is a widespread practice in the ancient Near East, also regulated by written legislation. Biblical legislation protects the orphan, the widow and the foreigner; but there is also an opposite tendency of not being able to accept the presence of pagan populations in the land of the fathers. The protocol of hospitality is a practice in the biblical world which never reached the form of written legislation, and which is presented as a set of literary motifs disseminated in numerous texts, without configuring a true and proper literary genre. The stories of Gen 19:1–29 and of Judg 19:11–30 are influenced by the dialectic between the two tendencies of the biblical world; what emerges from their comparison is the warning that the violation of the protocol of hospitality is an indication of the unravelling of the society. A canonical reading of the two biblical stories proposes as an example the behaviour of Abraham, who practices unconditional hospitality without limits.itAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ospitalitàprotocollo di ospitalitàstranierodisintegrazione di una societàhospitalityprotocol of hospitalityforeignerdisintegration of a societyL’ospitalità negata e il disfacimento di una società: i casi emblematici di Lot a Sodoma in Gn 19 e del crimine di Gabaa in Gdc 19Hospitality Denied and the Disintegration of Society: The Emblematic Cases of Lot in Sodom in Gen 19 and the Crime of Gibeah in Judg 19info:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/biban.15078