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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Bible: Women Inferiority









The Biblical view of women
"The social and legal position of an Israelite wife was inferior to the position a wife occupied in the great countries round about... all the texts show that Israelites wanted mainly sons to perpetuate the family line and fortune, and to preserve the ancestral inheritance... A husband could divorce his wife; women on the other hand could not ask for divorce... the wife called her husband Ba'al or master; she also called him adon or lord; she addressed him, in fact, as a slave addressed his master or subject, his king. The Decalogue includes a man's wife among his possessions... all her life she remains a minor. The wife does not inherit from her husband, nor daughters from their father, except when there is no male heir. A vow made by a girl or married woman needs, to be valid, the consent of the father or husband and if this consent is withheld, the vow is null and void. A man had a right to sell his daughter. Women were excluded from the succession."
The God of the Bible decrees that woman must submit to the dominance of man.
-Roland de Vaux, archaeologist and priest

More on Bible:
·        Bible: A Short History: http://wp.me/p1dL2Q-dh
·        Bible: Questionable Precepts: http://t.co/jO5UfC6
·        Contradictions in Bible: http://t.co/n21ziXH
·        Bible Absurdities: http://t.co/EvcTZFQ
·        Intractable Errors in Bible: http://t.co/CsLRdHQ
·        Bible: Obscenities: http://t.co/fRsZtfP
·        Violence and Atrocities in Bible: http://t.co/XJusYKb
·        Incest in the Bible
·        Morality of Bible http://t.co/0dBBX0J


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