By Vorjack
Marriage in the Bible, Part 4
Let’s take a look at Genesis 4:1:
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.” (RSV)
If you stop and think about it, that one line has a number of problems. Just what kind [...]
by VorJack
I’d thought I heard them all, until I ran across this parenthetical comment in Amy-Jill Levine’s The Misunderstood Jew:
I have twice been asked, each time by nice, silver-haired Protestant women, where I had my horns removed. The women, neither of whom had ever met a Jew before but both of whom had read [...]
Hilarious advice to the Abrahamic religions by Marcus Brigstocke:
By Vorjack
Marriage in the Bible, Part 3
In my last post in this unfocused look at marriage in the Bible, I discussed the interpretation of the Genesis story. Alas, I find that version of the story is incomplete. To get the real dirt on Adam & Eve, you have to turn to the Rabbinical [...]
Two “ultra-orthodox” Jewish newspapers “altered a photo of Israel’s new cabinet, removing two female ministers” — one replacing them with men and the other blacking them out.
Why would they do such a thing?
Publishing pictures of women is viewed by many ultra-orthodox Jews as a violation of female modesty.
Other Israeli papers reprinted the altered images next [...]
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