@Wonk. Regarding cannibalism. It's not a good thing in the bible.

"Punishment for Disobedience

14“‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.

18“‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21“‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. 22I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.

23“‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, 24I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25And I will bring the sword upon you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

27“‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, 28then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. 29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. 30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. 31I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. 32I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. 33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. 34Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

36“‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. 37They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. 38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. 39Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their fathers’ sins they will waste away.

40“‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their fathers—their treachery against me and their hostility toward me, 41which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. 43For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees.44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. 45But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

46These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses."

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

    If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father.  Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

That is a law of marriage and rape. How moral is it to force a rape victim to marry her rapist? Is there a point where this is invalidated latter?

Deuteronomy 22:23-24

  If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.

Pretty harsh to the rape victim here. Seems the only difference though for the rapist is who they rape. Rape a single vigin and you owe 50 silver pieces and get a wife. Rape a married woman and be put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house.  But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb.  After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife.  However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are.  If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.  But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.  And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter.  If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife.  If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment.

All I see here is it being a punishment for other crime, nothing forbidding it or the punishments for it.

Once again if Christ said you can't be inpure by what you put in your bodies. Thus making all the dietary laws void, the laws of mixed fabric void some would be so bold as to argue all the laws regarding how you grow food and tread your animal void. Why should how it's grown or treated matter if what you eat can't be wrong?  Christ should have made the exception.

There are no marriage laws really other than not to commit adultery. The others are about sexual relations not so much marriage. As such the institution of marriage never changed in the bible from Moses to the New. The only thing is that Jesus re-confirmed Genesis as superceding Moses on the topic of divorce, but Jesus never called divorce a sin per se, he mostly likened it to adultery, though that's a simplified explanation of what he actually said, which addresses a more specific type of divorce.

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.

To be honest I'm not sure. I don't know if Moses said it to discourage rape at all, because the rapist would have to face the family until either dies. The real problem would be if the rapist is not just an offernder in that he just wants sex, but is actually forcing a woman to marry him by using the law... That would be a horrible issue.

I'm not sure about this. To be honest with you if this actually happened to me it would be a real source of doubting my faith and the authority of my country leaders.

I'm really not sure what the logic is in all this. But my approach is to give it throught before writing it off. I've always done it when it comes to scripture and it's paid off, let me mull this over.

I like this because you actually take the rules to their ends, and I love that. Keep it up.

So, notice it doesn't say what happens if the girl cries out for help while she was in the city.

Again though, the story of Mary Magdalene supercedes this, and Christ explains the proper approach, which is grace and mercy (to both the victim who was defiled and the rapist who was the offender).

Yah, I don't like this one either... There might be something I'm not considering. Probably normally had there been no marriage she would have been a slave and the marriage was a form of redemption for her. Still, it is not in line with the teachings of Christ and the book of Genesis. This is why the law of Moses is secondary to the law of Christ.

The issue with this one is slavery or something different, I'm not sure. Sorry if I don't see it in this case. Polygamy?

I'm glad you are seeing some things here that make you question. I grew up Jewish and started questioning years ago.

With the girl crying out for help, the unsaid thing is that obviously someone would stop it and then then consequence would be the one you mentioned before. However cities of today are not the cities of back then, it's much easier to be where you can't be heard. Although even then I would say the law was harsh.

The last paragragh had numerous things that today would be considered horrible. Selling a daughter a a slave. The bolded part is where you could infer the sex and considering that she was sold as a slave I'd have a hard time calling it anything but rape.  There is also another law or marrage in here as well.

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 marriage^c 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

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.