| Wonktonodi said:
There are many actual. The one I showed before of the rapist marrying the rape victim if the victim wasn't engaged/ virgin depending on the translation http://www.religioustolerance.org/mar_bibl0.htm So for instance did the new testament get rid of where a man would have to marry his brothers widow if she had no sons? What were the changes in divorce? I'm pretty sure that the old testament had it where the woman couldn't get a divorce unless her husband agreed. With sad cases for a woman whose husband was lost not being allowed to remarry. Pretty sure because I was raised Jewish and learned of how in modern day there is the Lieberman clause in Ketubahs. |
I'm not entirely sure, but I'll give you the NT reference for you to judge for yourself.
So, Matthew 19.
Divorce
1When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
3Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’a 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’b? 6So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
7“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
10The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
11Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriagec because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”
It becomes hard to tell what Mosaic laws were there due to the hardness of heart according to Jesus, but maybe this could shed light on the Rape laws you mentioned earlier. :(
I did a quick research and found Deuteronomy 24:1
24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 2 and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, 3 and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, 4 then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
And this paper that I doubt I'll ever read :)
http://www.tyndalehouse.com/tynbul/library/TynBull_1998_49_1_03_Warren_MosesDivorce.pdf
