- Burn
the daughter!
- Cut
off her hand!
- Expose
her breasts!
- Female
births get penalty
- Female
inferiority
- God's
OK on abortion
- Jesus
will kill children
- Kill
the witches!
- Moses'
mass murder
- Rape
my daughter
- Raping
and killing
- Silence
the woman!
- Stone
the woman
- "Virgin"
mistranslation
- Virgin's
worth
- Wives,
submit yourselves!
- Women
shall not speak
- Women's
sorrow
- Rip
up pregnant women
- The
wicked woman
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The Biblical view
of women
The God of the Bible decrees
that woman must submit to the dominance of man.
"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."
-Roland de Vaux, archaeologist
and priest
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