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S2 Ep1049: Does the Old Testament Dehumanize Women? Dr. Sandy Richter (Exiles 22 Talk + Q & A)

Theology in the Raw

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Women's Laws of the Old Testament

In this world, a woman's link to the economy and the legal system was through the men in her life. This is also the real space and time from which the women's laws of the Old Testament came into being. For women in this world, marriage and motherhood were not a sentimentality. They were a career track. The double portion for the firstborn son, the inalienable land law, the leverate law, the law jubilee are very odd to us. But we all lived to try again another day.

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