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The Bible offers advice for all areas of life. Also on the topic of "women".
Where they come from and what they really are good? The Bible provides answers to these questions.
We continue our journey through the book of Genesis and then draw a conclusion that our image of women should be taught in this dubious piece of work.
ALL FOR ONE
The last chapters of Genesis tell us about the sons of Jacob, the legendary forefathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. The meet for the first time in Chapter 34 in action.
The story begins with Jacob's only daughter - or at least the only one from which we learn - is raped.
"1 but Dina, Leah's daughter, she had given birth to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the country.
2 As the saw Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, who was the country gentleman, he took her and lay with her and weakened them. "
(Genesis 34:1-2)
The Lord had published his great laws still are missing. (He does so only in Moses' time, which are located chronologically much later than the Book of Genesis.) Therefore, there is no divine law, resulting in a such a case would be to do
the correct solution. Shechem must marry Dina and may divorced and never have to pay Jacob further 50 pieces of silver (according to Deuteronomy 22:28 ).
But you would have nothing at all to force a wedding: He's in love with his rape victims and asks his father to arrange for him to marry Dinah.
"3 And his heart was in it, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly to her
4 And Shechem said to his father Hamor.: Get me the damsel to wife. " have
(Genesis 34:3-4)
Jacob and his sons already experienced by the desecration. They begin to glow with the wedding negotiations and the first condition is that the groom-to-be should be circumcised for now.
(Circumcision is the sign of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants.) Is "13 Since the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, so that her sister Dina was raped,
14 and said to them: We can not do that we give our sister to one uncircumcised man, for that would be our shame
. 15 But then we want to be with you will, you will like us and all that is male among you be circumcised, "
(Genesis 34:13-15)
Not only Shechem is to let the foreskin removed, but all the male inhabitants of the city, for obscure reasons. For still some unknown reasons also explain all the men immediately ready.
"24 And they obeyed the Hamor and Shechem his son, all of his city gate and went circumcised and all the males, which at that city and a . Was "
(Genesis 34:24)
But the whole point was just a rogue strike. Jacob did not intend to marry off his daughter, the inhabitants of the city are now sitting with sore genitals look in her booth and stupid from washing. Harharhar!
In order to put another icing on the cake to the revenge murder of Jacob sons nor all men of the city and loot their homes.
"25 And on the third day because they had pain, and took the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina brothers, every man his sword and went boldly into the city and killed all that was manly.
26 strangled and Hamor and Shechem his son with the sword and took her sister Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away.
27 Then came the sons of Jacob about the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
28 And took their sheep, cattle, donkeys, and what was in the city and in the field
29 and all their possessions, all Children and wives they took captive, and plundered all that was in the houses "
(Genesis 34:25-29)
As Jesus said. Murder If someone strikes you on the left cheek, then all men of the city and rob their families.
It seems a little unfair to all the citizens for the acts of an individual be punished. But God does not mind what you read in his silence on the matter .
If God is not something that is has agreed to follow a unique reaction - as we learn from the next episode
ONAN. THE BARBARIAN
The last chapters of Genesis tell in the first place of Joseph, Jacob's favorite son. However, this story is interrupted by a report of Judah, another son of Jacob, and worried their two sons, Onan and Judah Ger
his eldest son Ger woman. But the marriage does not last long: Ger is doing something that angered the Lord. Therefore, God kills him. .
"6 And Judah was his first son, Er, a wife, whose name was Tamar
7 but Er was wicked in the LORD: wherefore he slew the MR. "
(Genesis 38:6-7)
Judah asks his other son Onan to marry the now widowed Tamar. This fulfills the father's desire, but wants to have children with Tamar. Hence his ejaculation always lands on the ground and never in his sister / wife
"8 Judah said to Onan. Go to your brother's wife and take her in marriage, that thou stir up your brother.
9 But since Onan knew that the seed should be his own, when he went in to his brother's wife, he let's fall to the ground and It corrupt, that he his brother were not for seed. "
(Genesis 38:8-9)
After Onan's law then would have had children are entitled to the inheritance of his brother killed by God. This Onan but rejects vehemently .. Why, we do not experience
The moral of the story is' clear, however: by Onan the good seed fall to the ground and tainted, he makes God angry, and we know what happened then
.. "10 liked since the evil Lord what he did, and he slew him also. "
(Genesis 38:10)
The whole story is interpreted by the Catholic Church that each sperm-waste is a sin: both self-satisfaction (by Onan and "masturbation"), and also as coitus interruptus and other contraceptive methods.
Of course in the real world of coitus interruptus no safe method of contraception, but that did not know the author of this text, God, good. has
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WEAR THAT DRESS TONIGHT
As God now also killed her second husband, Tamar moves back to her parents. Many years pass and Tamar remains unmarried. Judah had indeed promised her to marry her with his son Shelah, if the old enough, but keeps his promise not.
Tamar would like but not necessarily a child from the family of Judah. In order to smooth things, she devises a clever plan. Everything begins with Tamar learns that the recently widowed Judah is on his way to his sheep. They disguise themselves fully, including her face, so that Judah does not recognize it, and starts it off at the gate. to
"12 Now many days have gone, died of Shua's daughter, Judah's wife. And when Judah had been in mourning, he went up his sheep shears, to Timnah with his friend Hira of Adullam.
13 was announced as the Tamar, "Behold, your father is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
14 As she put her widow's clothes on his own, which she wore, covered himself with a coat and covered herself and sat in front of the goal of openly by the roadside to Timnah, for they saw that there was Sela large become, and she was not given to the woman. "
(Genesis 38:12-14)
Nowadays we think the sight of fully veiled women do not necessarily mean that these women would certainly engage in prostitution. In the past, the probably different.
"15 . Now when they saw Judah, he said, she was a harlot, for she had covered her face "
(Genesis 38:15)
When Judah sees the alleged prostitute, he thinks to himself: a bit of fun must be .
"16 And he made to her by the way, saying, Let me come to you, because he did not know that it was his daughter. She answered: What wilt thou give me, that you come to me "
(Genesis 38:16)
When asked what Judah was willing to pay for sex, he offers a goat on. Since he has the goat present, he gives her some personal items as collateral.
"17 He said, I will send thee a kid from the flock you answered. Enter as me a pledge, till thou's send
18 he said.: What do you want for a pledge that I shall give you your answer?. your ring and your line and your staff that you have in your hands "
(Genesis 38:17-18a)
is not described in great detail the sex. After all, we learn that Tamar is pregnant like this.
"Then he gave it to her and came to her;.. and she became pregnant by him "
(Genesis 38:18 b)
Sounds almost like a little poem, very nice
Tamar can apparently concealed her face during sex all the time, or But Judah look elsewhere. In any event, noted Judah, that it is in the alleged sex worker to his ex-daughter-is. Back home, sends Judah los a friend to bring prostitutes to the goat. But, the whore of course .
not find
"22 And he returned to Judah and said, I have not found her, to tell the people of the village, it was not Whore been there.
23 Judah said, you may keep it; us they can not yet say of shame, for I have sent the box, so you have not found "
(Genesis 38:22 -. 23)
As he tried to pay the unknown lady, he is now out of the woods and no one could accuse him a disgrace by Judah. He finds prostitution is not morally reprehensible. Of course, only for a man, the whore has the death deserves
"24 was announced over three months of Judah. Your daughter Tamar has played the harlot; to see, is she pregnant by harlotry. Judah says: Bring it out, let her be burnt. "
(Genesis 38:24)
Judah has heard rumors that Tamar has played the harlot, he would now, of course, burned at the stake.
Although not part of his household, Tamar (Judah as his promise broken, she had to marry his son, Sela,) he makes a big fuss about the matter.
When he learns, however, who was the suitor, that he himself, he suddenly thinks that it probably would be better but the thing prefer to sweep under the carpet.
"25 And they brought forth, she sent to her father, saying, Of the man I am pregnant, the, this, saying:. Do you know well, which is why this ring and this line and this team is?
26 Judah saw it and said. She is more righteous than I, because I have not given my son Shelah But he recognized henceforth no more ".
(Genesis 38:25-26)
Tamar is rehabilitated. Not that anything has changed Judas whore hostile attitude. But he realizes that he himself also made a mistake added. An injury is similar to the other of an eye for an eye, fraud scam. This is the questionable morality of God throughout the Old Testament.
HAND OUT
Tamar happens the very best that can happen to a woman in the Bible. She gets in the male offspring and even double.
"27 And when they give birth, twins were found in her body."
(Genesis 38:27)
After getting the legal philosophy of the time is always the first-born son of the main part of the heritage. In the case of Tamar's twins waved to him who comes first from the mother, the Legacy of Ger - the first man killed by God Thamar.
A hand comes out of the vagina - the midwife ties a red thread around a finger, so as to mark the first-born.
"28 And when she gave birth to now, did turn out a hand as the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied him for it and said.. He will come out first"
(Genesis 38:28)
But Nope! considering the little rascal changed his mind, sashayed backwards back through the birth canal into the uterus and leaves his brother go first.
"29 But hineinzog his hand again, his brother came out, and she said : Why have you torn your sake such a rift? And he was called Perez.
30 afterward came out his brother, the red thread around his hand had . And he was called Zerah. "
(Genesis 38:29-30)
According to the New Testament (Matthew 1:3 ) Perez is actually a primitive ancestor of King David and Jesus Christ.'s All we know about him and his twin brother did not. The story of Tamar is over.
wife, mother, whore and scheming impostor: Tamar embodies almost all the roles that may play a woman in the Bible.
but sometimes we take a close look at the image of women that give the first 40 chapters of Genesis. This does not in fact in the entire Bible.
PLAN B
The first woman in the Bible will remain nameless. It is from the LORD the same time created with the also nameless first man in God's image.
"27 And God created man in His own image, the image of God he created him;. And they created a man and a woman"
(Genesis 1:27)
known but much is the second creation story of man, which is in stark contradiction to the first version. Here the woman is not created with the same man, but only God's Plan B.
First, the Lord creates a man
"7 And the Lord God made man from a lump of clay, We blew him the breath of life into his nostrils. And man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden eastward, and put the man, he had made "
(Genesis 2:7-8)
This (third) first man God created, gets way, never an individual name:". Adam "is the Hebrew word for" man " .
noticed when God with his super-intuition that Adam is lonely, he decides to do something about it
"18 And the Lord God said. It is not good that the man to be alone, I will make him an help meet for him "
(Genesis 2:18)
Since God had already taken the trouble to create all sorts of animals sampled. He first if not one of them could be a suitable helper for Adam. made
"19 For when the Lord God of Earth had all the beasts of the field and every bird of the air, he brought her to the man that he saw what he calls ;. than would be called as the man called all kinds of living animals, they
20 And the man gave to every animal and bird of the air and beasts of the field's name; but was found no helper for man, that would be for him. "
(Genesis 2:19-20)
The search was fruitless. God must think about something else.
" 21 As the Lord God made a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he fell asleep. And he of his ribs, and closed the facility started with meat.
22 And the Lord God built a woman from the rib which he took from the people , and brought them to him.
23 the man said: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman , so that it is taken out of Man. "
(Genesis 2:21-23)
After the Almighty unsuccessful million species of land animals and birds had tested for the suitability as a mate for Adam, he designed the prototype of the Männin.
the name" Eva "she gets Incidentally, after the fall, and, as it should be different from her husband who is so expert in the type name. Unfortunately, proving God Not too intelligent design soon as Adam and dirty the heavenly life.
This version of the creation of woman as a helpmate for the man fits much better the image of women of the Bible as the former. The rib story is also preferred by the authors of the New Testament:
"11 a woman learn in silence with all subjection
12 . allow a woman but I do not think they teach, nor that of the man she Lord, but in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. "
(1 Timothy 2:11-13)
"8 For the husband is not from woman, but woman from man.
9 And the man is not made for the sake of the woman, but woman for the man. "
9 And the man is not made for the sake of the woman, but woman for the man. "
THE MAN AND THE WOMAN
It starts but all so good. The man and the woman enjoy themselves as shameless nackedei in the garden.
" 25 And they were both naked, the man and the woman, and were not ashamed. "
(Genesis 2:25)
But unfortunately, the woman convinced by a talking serpent, the forbidden fruit from the tree .. to nibble the knowledge Adam also eats then on the recommendation of his wife from the fruit
When God finds out, he's foul-auer The woman gets two penalties:. This would God cause her pain in childbirth is also forever. to be submissive to her husband - the helper is therefore the chance for equality finally and irrevocably denied
"16 . And the woman he said, "I will create a lot of pain if you become pregnant, and thou shalt bring forth children in pain, and your desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee".
(Genesis 3:16)
that Eve's punishment applies to all their female offspring is, in part, clearly. Finally, God also prepares today's women still labor pains
And that the role of subordinates for all women to apply the world for all time, the claim at least the authors of the Old Testament
And the authors of the New Testament.
"22 The women are subservient to their husbands as to the Lord .
23 For the husband is head of the wife , as Christ is the head of the church, and he is Savior of his body.
24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives be to their husbands in everything. "
(Ephesians 5:22-24)
"1 But you speak, how's become sound doctrine: [...]
4 that they teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, children love
5 ; be discreet, chaste, home, kind, obedient their husbands, that is not the word of God be evil spoken of "
5 ; be discreet, chaste, home, kind, obedient their husbands, that is not the word of God be evil spoken of "
(Titus 2:1,4 -. 5)
(1 Peter 3:1)
" 34 As in all municipalities let the Holy your women keep silence in the community, for it should not be allowed to them that they are talking about, but they should be subject, as the law also says "
(1 Corinthians 14:34)
Geba, MOTHER!
The best thing that can happen to a woman in the Bible is to have a child. In this case, virtually all newborns in the bible male. Thus, for example in the Book of Genesis reported the following births:
- From Abraham's sons Ishmael and Isaac, but not their wives
- From Isaac's sons Jacob and Esau, but not the three wives of Esau and Jacob
four women - from twelve sons of Jacob, but none of their wives;
- From male grandchildren of Jacob's sons, Judah and Joseph - but, surprise, by their wives.
In the countless family trees always only male offspring called.
In the New Testament, written hundreds of years after the Book of Genesis, nothing has changed to this setting.
"14 And Adam was not deceived;. But the woman was deceived and in the transgression
15 But it will be saved in childbearing , if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety "
(1 Timothy 2:14. - 15)
"23 And Jesus was because he started about thirty years old, and was kept for a son of Joseph, who was a son Eli,
24 was the a son Hats Matt, who was a son Levis, who was a son Melchi, who was a son Janna, who was a son Joseph
25 was a son of Mattathias, who was a son of Amos, who was a son of Nahum, who was a son Eslis, who was a son Nangais, ;
26 who was a son Maaths, who was a son of Mattathias, who was a son Shimei, who was a son Josechs, who was a son Judah
27 was a son of Johanan, who was a son Resa, who was a son Zerubbabel, who was a son Shealtiel, who was a son Neris,
28 who was a son Melchi, who was a son Addis, who was a son kosame, who was a son Elmadams, who was a son Hers,
29 was a son of Jesus, who was a son Eliezer, who was a son Jorems, who was a son Hats Matt, who was a son Levis,
30 was a son of Simeon, who was a son Judas, who was a son of Joseph, who was a son Jonam, who was a son Eliakim
31 was a Meleas son, who was a son Menam, who was a son Thans Matta, who was a son Nathan, who was a son David
32 was a son Jesse, who was a son of Obed, who was a son of Boaz, who was a son Salma, who was a son of Nahshon,
33 who was a son Amminadab, who was a son Rams, who was a son Hezron, who was a son of Perez, who was a son Judah
34 who was a son Jacob, who was a son Isaac, who was a son of Abraham, who was a son Terah, who was a son Nahor,
35 who was a son Serug, who was a son Regus , who was a son Peleg, who was a son Ebers, who was a son Salah,
36 who was a son Kenan, who was a son Arphaxad, who was a son Shem, who was a son Noah, who was a son Lamech,
37 who was a son Methuselah, who was a son Enoch, who was a son Jared, who was a son Mahalaleel, who was a son Cainan,
38 was a son of Enos, who was a son Seth, who was a son Adams, who was God. "
(Luke 3:23-38)
38 was a son of Enos, who was a son Seth, who was a son Adams, who was God. "
(Luke 3:23-38)
Another 1,500 years later there was a big change in the Church: The Reformation. At the misogynistic attitude has done nothing but, as the following quote from Martin Luther suggests discreetly ". The greatest honor that has the woman is, yea, that men are born with it"
(Martin Luther)
Even today, may in the Catholic Church women are not the priesthood (or even higher positions) hold, because Paul and a few other men of whom we do not even know the name, it have not allowed about two thousand years ago.
"A woman to listen quietly to submit to all. I authorize any woman to teaching and to rise above the man. Yes Adam was created first, and only then Eve. "
(Pope John Paul II, 1988)
A spiritual development, it is probably here with the best will not recognize. By the way Orthodox Jews speak the same prayer every morning, at the men thank God that he did not create as a woman. Is not that nice of God? ..
I'M A BITCH, I'M A LOVER, I'M A CHILD , I'M A MOTHER
having children may be the best thing a woman can do so - that is, of course not that it has any bearing on who they are convinced the next generation.
illustrates this example, the story of the birth of Abram's first son ...
"3 then took Sarai, Abram's wife, her Egyptian maid, Hagar, and gave them Abram, her husband, a wife, after having lived ten years in the land of Canaan.
4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived "
(Genesis 16:3-4a)
Some time later - now renamed Abram from God to Abraham -. is the almighty Lord to visit.
"1 And the Lord appeared to him in the grove of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his hut, as the day was the hottest."
(Genesis 18:1)
God comes solely by to announce that Abraham's wife Sarah (formerly Sarai) will soon bear a son. Somehow relates to the Sara yes a bit - after all, so they must deliver the child over the age of 90 years. However, they may not sit at the table with God, but is sent there, where women belong, now times: Behind the stove.
"6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, hurry and three measures of fine flour, knead and bake cake "
(Genesis 18:6)
mother and wife, daughter and sister sometimes. These are the roles must take the most of the biblical women - this most passive in the way that you can imagine
In the few cases, act in which women are active, shown to be extremely insidious, immoral and cunning
Lots make daughters.. their father drunk and can be pregnant by him. Rebekka cheating one of her sons and her husband Isaac. Her daughter Rachel steals her father's Gods. Her grandson Judah is tricked by Tamar. The order also sets out briefly the horizontal industries.
fornication and adultery are the only situations that deal in which a woman's self-determination in the Bible with their sexuality can be - both crimes punishable by death in God's eyes (Deuteronomy chapter 22).
RAPE ME, MY FRIEND
women are the property of their fathers until they change marriage by the owner. Especially is this attitude clearly in God's laws, which relate to rape.
"23 If a girl is engaged to someone, and a man she sees in the city sleeps so with her,
24 you should run them both at the city gate and ye shall stone them with stones that they die, the girl so that she has not cried since she was in town ; shalt die, and the evil done by you, "
(Deuteronomy 22:23,24)
The man must be because he has damaged the property of another man, the man, because he has defiled his neighbor's wife. . The situation is different if the rape victim is not married.
"28 If someone comes to a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and sleeps with her, and there is therefore
29 is so has been sleeping with her, give her father fifty shekels of silver and is to have a wife, so that he has weakened it, so he can not let his life "
(Deuteronomy 22:28)
In this case the woman is now damaged goods, their resale value has been diminished and therefore no longer married. can be. Therefore, the rapist father to pay a large indemnity, for he is indeed the damage incurred. Moreover, the perpetrators are Victims may never get married and divorced.
The fact that some women may have no desire to marry her rapist, is completely irrelevant.
Who cares? God did not.
MARIA MARIA
The New Testament brings the good news of God's daughter ... Ne was just fun, the old gentleman is still a macho and wants to give people the gospel, but certainly not bring emancipation.
In the Jesus story, there are only two women ever play a significant role: Maria and Mary.
far the most important female figure in Christianity is of course the mother of God. Why? Because she is the mother of God. Now that God has lent without asking her uterus, she plays for the rest of the Jesus saga no longer relevant.
Then there's the Maria Magdalena. In the Catholic church tradition it is regarded as a prostitute. Of these, however, is absolutely nothing in the Bible.
Mary Magdalene appears in the Christ story two times. Once, when Jesus cast out seven demons from Mary and the same for the second time at the grave of Christ.
When she visits the grave alone, they discovered, in effect, that it is empty and Jesus is gone (John 20:1 ). Or maybe she was not alone, but together with other Mary (Matthew 28:1 ) or with a Salome and another Mary (Mark 16:1 ) or with another Mary, a Johanna and at least two other women (Luke 24:10 ) - Depending on which Gospel you read.
Even in Acts, women play no significant role, after all, it is not even permitted them to teach.
Although Jesus is not in his sermons and parables mentioned the issue of women's rights, it refers precisely because of this silence position. Because he could not speak out against the prevailing practice of unequal treatment, he does not seem to bother most of it.
An even clearer sign is the selection of his twelve disciples, all of whom are male. There was probably not a woman who was so apt for it, like the men that Jesus chose, as Judas.
GIRL, YOU'LL SOON BE A MAN
In the four Gospels of the Bible says Jesus, not about women, but in the Gospel of Thomas, which is not in the Bible has done, but nevertheless was among the early Christians known and popular. The Gospel of Thomas consists only of Jesus quotes. In one, Jesus makes the women hope to equal rights as men. For if the effort is really, says Christ, they can turn into men. The Savior knows what women want.
(114) Simon Peter said to them. Maria will go away from our midst, because women are not worthy of life
Jesus said, Behold, I will draw them in order to make male, so that it becomes a living spirit, comparable with you men. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven. "
Jesus said, Behold, I will draw them in order to make male, so that it becomes a living spirit, comparable with you men. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven. "
( Thomas 114)
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SERIES: THE BOOK OF GENESIS
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more about Women in the Bible:
Sex in the Bible
women's stories (stories from the Bible Part 4)
Boys Just Want to Have Fun (stories from the Bible Part 2)
women's stories (stories from the Bible Part 4)
Boys Just Want to Have Fun (stories from the Bible Part 2)
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