levite

The account of the Levite and his concubine: A Levite from the hill country of Ephraim goes to retrieve his concubine from her father’s house in Bethlehem.

The other guy was a Levite — meaning, a big deal super-duper high-class extra-holy Jew.

The Levite tells her to get up, sees she’s dead, then cuts her body into twelve pieces and sends them throughout Israel to rally the tribes against Benjamin.

The host refuses and offers his own virgin daughter and the Levite’s concubine instead.

There is a similar story in Judges 19–21, the story about The Levite's Concubine[0].

The priest in this age is also no longer a Levite.

It’s literally a running gag on Matt Levite’s newsletter that all the SEC needs to do to keep their enforcement quota up is to search their database for any deep OTM option trades around earnings announcements.

): And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by.

It is also a dumb name because the phrase "Good Samaritan" comes from the unexpectedly helpful behavior of the original Samaritan -- Samaritans and Jews despised each other, so the man who was ignored by a priest and a Levite, but helped by..of all people!..a Samaritan, found cause to remark on this.

And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”, or The Levite’s Concubine, for instance, is necessarily something you want to spring on people, and if we’re going to do content warnings - and as a culture we do - we should be consistent.

I once read that the story of the Good Samaritan (by Jesus) follows the structure of a popular set of jokes (or possibly self-congratulatory "wisdom") of the time: something happens, a priest comes by and is useless, a Levite passes by and is useless, and finally a common Jew comes by and fixes the problem, and everybody gets to feel good about being a commoner and not some useless elitist.

A related piece from Jeremy Waldron on the topic of "moral distance": "The parable of the Good Samaritan, as it has become known, is cited most often by moral philosophers to open a debate about the duty to rescue [...] We all agree that it was wrong for the thieves to attack the man, and that it would be equally wrong for the Samaritan, the priest, or the Levite to join in such an attack.

): And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by.

It is also a dumb name because the phrase "Good Samaritan" comes from the unexpectedly helpful behavior of the original Samaritan -- Samaritans and Jews despised each other, so the man who was ignored by a priest and a Levite, but helped by..of all people!..a Samaritan, found cause to remark on this.

And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”, or The Levite’s Concubine, for instance, is necessarily something you want to spring on people, and if we’re going to do content warnings - and as a culture we do - we should be consistent.

I once read that the story of the Good Samaritan (by Jesus) follows the structure of a popular set of jokes (or possibly self-congratulatory "wisdom") of the time: something happens, a priest comes by and is useless, a Levite passes by and is useless, and finally a common Jew comes by and fixes the problem, and everybody gets to feel good about being a commoner and not some useless elitist.

The host refuses and offers his own virgin daughter and the Levite’s concubine instead.

There is a similar story in Judges 19–21, the story about The Levite's Concubine[0].

The priest in this age is also no longer a Levite.