Problem
Hali Meithhad contrasts the physical or earthly with the spiritual or holy. As a result, the audience sees a wife's earthly marriage, sex, and procreation contrasted with a virgin's spiritual marriage, union with Christ, and spiritual progeny. Discuss some of the ways in which the Saint Katherine text divides the earthly and the spiritual (or the external and the internal/outer and inner), noting any similarities and differences between the two texts' approaches to the female body and soul. What does the inclusion of both earthly and spiritual features suggest about the female readership of these texts and/or how the texts' authors viewed this female readership?