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The task of interpreting the Bible—a book written by and to people living in very different cultural contexts from contemporary Western society—can seem monumental. The opposite is also true: people can easily forget that studying the Bible is a type of cross-cultural encounter, instead reading their own cultural assumptions into biblical texts. In A Cultural Handbook to the Bible, John Pilch...

rights and responsibilities, but specialists find it difficult to define a consistent set of rights or statuses established by marriage in all cultures. That explains why some experts offer a simple definition of marriage as a “bundle of rights.” These experts further observe that marriage as a recognized category of social relationship is not a universal phenomenon. A good number of languages, including biblical Hebrew, have no word for marriage! In the Hebrew Bible,
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