Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] xrm and the Canaanites' VIP treatment

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] xrm and the Canaanites' VIP treatment
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:36:06 +1300 (NZDT)

Yitzhak wrote:-

>> People are not different, but they have different cultural values, and
>> our cultural sense
>> of right or wrong is different from the values during Biblical times.
>>

And Karl asked:-

>Oh? How are they different? Can you give any specific examples?

In the Bible the seduction of a married woman is a more serious
crime than the rape of a virgin. Most modern westerners would hold
the opposite view, me included.

Bill Rea, ICT Services, University of Canterbury \_
E-Mail bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz </ New
Phone 64-3-364-2331, Fax 64-3-364-2332 /) Zealand
Unix Systems Administrator (/'





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page