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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] concubine, was bethulah equals virgin?
  • Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:00:37 -0500

Shoshanna:

A concubine was considered the same as a common law wife is
today: the same as marriage only without the formality and paper
work. An unfaithful concubine was the same as an unfaithful wife.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
>
> Unmarried women were allowed to be concubines without being denigrated.
>
> There were rules there, too - the man had to support their children,
> and the woman couldn't be with another man.
>
> Furthermore, if an unmarried woman has a child, that child is not
> denigrated by the community, and is not considered a "mamzer"
>
> The unaccepted behavior, is for a MARRIED woman to be with another
> man - there was not a stigma for an unmarried woman to be with a man,
> it was acceptable if she stayed with the same person....
>
> Shoshanna
>
>

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  • Re: [b-hebrew] concubine, was bethulah equals virgin?, Karl Randolph, 10/14/2005

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