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Jewish Domestic Customs and Life in Interpreting the Gospels is unavailable, but you can change that!

A key part of interpreting literature is putting a given work in its historical and cultural context. This contextual analysis is essential to understanding and interpreting of any text—and the Bible is no exception. Gary Staats examines the mundane and the extraordinary of Jewish life in order to shed light on the Gospels. Providing scriptural cross-references, he tackles everything from indoor...

Said R. Joseph: What does he let us hear? We have [already] learned [this]: He who eats at his father-in-law’s between the time of betrothal and the time of marriage in Judaea, without witnesses, cannot [after the marriage] raise the claim of [the loss of] virginity, because he is along with her.1 Even so, the betrothal was a covenant or agreement of marriage which was considered as a final “promise of marriage made some time before the celebration of the wedding.”2 In a sense the betrothal has the
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