BI306 Women in the Biblical World: New Testament (Biblia.com)

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In Women in the Biblical World: New Testament, Dr. Mark Chavalas provides a historical survey of the status of women in the Graeco-Roman world, from the advent of alphabetic texts in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean regions during the late eighth century BC, to the first century AD. He looks at Greek and Roman documents as well as classical-period documents from Egypt and other regions of the...

And, of course, he’s clearly in affirmation of these things. “It is also written, regarding the right to kill: ‘If you catch your wife in adultery, you can kill her with impunity;she, however, cannot dare to lay a finger on you if you commit adultery, nor is it the law.’ ” And there’s that double standard that I briefly talked about earlier in Greek law; it was certainly the case in Roman law also. It’s that women did not have this right and privilege to convict their husbands, or at least make the

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