RAPE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

Rape in the Old Testament

RAPE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

Introduction

The obsession of our society with the status of a young women being pure sexually, raw or with an enraptured hymen has been there even before the Bible and Aristotle. It has appeared like a universal and global occurrence, which has lasted the lifelong. The culture of the West has managed to accept the ancient clarification that the status of virginity of a female is crucial for the social and moral values of the community. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, in her book “Reading the women of the Bible” has asked the very uncommon question that why the modern society cares so much about the virginity of a female. She has rightly raised the question that the modern culture in the West is fanatical about the virginity of a woman and think of it as a statement of purity; and on the other hand, the sexual experience of a man is usually a rite of passage into manhood or as a badge of honor.

The Bible has introduced us to the troubles that characterize sexual offense negative social phenomenon, why the - the book misses an opportunity to raise this aspect. Discussion on these issues in educational, (boys, and girls) requires attention and care I think it would be worth leveraging internalizing problems of the subject passed

Bible there is several sources relating to acts of forced sex. The Bible refers to the offense itself and prohibits it, and it raises the difficult events and the rape of Dinah, Tamar rape hill mistress. I remember my first encounter with these stories as a child in school. I felt the size of the shock and horror described my lack of understanding why stories are described in the books so difficult. I did not feel at all these stories relevant to my life, my impression was that they describe a brutal behavior characteristic of an ancient society that does not match the values ??in them and teaches Bible. When she grew up, I called these sources and realized how they describe truths relevant to his right. When I began in the field of sexual harassment (an attorney), although the more I realized the Bible introduces us to the problems that characterize sexual offense, a negative social phenomenon and could not explain to myself why the house - the book missed an opportunity to raise this aspect. Discussion on these issues in educational, (boys, and girls) requires attention and care I think he will leverage should the offense internalizing problems of the subject.

Discussion

Rape of Dina

Dina went out a - Leah, whom she bore to Jacob to build a country; saw you Nablus ... Take you and lay you and answer; stick to his country of - Jacob Weahab the - boy ... Jacob heard that he had defiled - Dinah his daughter and his sons were the - cattle in the field Vahahars Jacob until - if (early child, Sunday - Thursday)

We would expect the protagonist to be ...