Rudeness and Religion
May. 20th, 2004 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyI really ought to be eating breakfast and reading another issue of Excalibur, but instead, some more ruminations on Mr Prager's article.
A little rummaging online produced a list of OT polygamists. For some reason Mr Prager omits this ancient custom from his essay. The Mesopotamians also practised polygamy; laws regarding this are laid out in the Code of Hammurabi and seem roughly similar to those of the Hebrews - for example, the additional wives had lesser status than the first.
Found the laws regarding premarital sex in Deuteronomy 22. Women were executed if found not to be virgins on their wedding night. A man who had sex with an unbetrothed woman was required to marry her. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elsaf pointed out in her response to my earlier posting, these are property regulations, and so possibly not the very best model for modern times. The Code of Hammurabi contains similar laws, which doesn't support Prager's contention that the Hebrews invented sex-only-within-marriage.
A little rummaging online produced a list of OT polygamists. For some reason Mr Prager omits this ancient custom from his essay. The Mesopotamians also practised polygamy; laws regarding this are laid out in the Code of Hammurabi and seem roughly similar to those of the Hebrews - for example, the additional wives had lesser status than the first.
Found the laws regarding premarital sex in Deuteronomy 22. Women were executed if found not to be virgins on their wedding night. A man who had sex with an unbetrothed woman was required to marry her. As
elsaf pointed out in her response to my earlier posting, these are property regulations, and so possibly not the very best model for modern times. The Code of Hammurabi contains similar laws, which doesn't support Prager's contention that the Hebrews invented sex-only-within-marriage.
