[b-hebrew] xrm and the Canaanites' VIP treatment
Eric Forster
eric.forster at ca.rr.com
Wed Jan 16 17:54:32 EST 2008
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From: "Bill Rea" <bsr15 at cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz>
To: b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org
Received: 1/16/2008 12:44:47 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] xrm and the Canaanites' VIP treatment
You wrote:
*I gave you an example. Read it. Its offensive to most modern people.
*A
*woman gets raped and the rapist has to marry her with no chance of
*divorce. Who's that punishment for? Here if you did what's in those
*verses
*you could been facing time in the slammer if your lawyer doesn't
*defame
*and slander the victim sufficiently well to convince the jury she was a
*slut. I doubt you could even find on New Zealand's statute books a law
*which forbids a man to seduce a married woman. Morally its still
*wrong,
*but not legally. The laws in the Torah aren't there to look pretty. They
*were living law codes which were actually used.
It is safe to say that the concepts of rape and adultery have evolved quite a bit since the Torah was written. Our present-day notions of what adultery is would probably look quaint or totally out of touch to the Israelites, and well they should.
Eric Forster
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