“The Tenth Commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21)”
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Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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Those Amazing Women of Ancient Israel
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Those Amazing Women of Ancient Israel
Part 1
Israel’s Social Concern for Women
Chapter 2 Israel’s Concern for Women
Chapter 3 The Status of Women in Israelite Society
Chapter 4 The Deuteronomic Concern for Women
Chapter 5 The Tenth Commandment (Deuteronomy 5:21)
Chapter 6 The Law of the Hebrew Slave
Part 2
Women Prophets
Chapter 7 Women Prophets in the Old Testament
Chapter 8 Miriam the Prophetess
Chapter 9 Deborah the Prophetess
Chapter 10 Isaiah’s Wife
Chapter 11 Huldah, A Prophet in Israel
Chapter 12 Noadiah the Prophetess
Chapter 13 The Nameless Prophetesses in the Book of Ezekiel
Chapter 14 The Seven Prophetesses of the Old Testament
Chapter 15 Women Who Proclaim the Good News
Chapter 16 The Daughters of Heman
Chapter 17 “Your Daughters Shall Prophesy”
Part 3
The Mothers of Israel
Chapter 18 Sarah: A Mother in Her Old Age
Chapter 19 Hagar: The Surrogate Mother
Chapter 20 Rachel: The Struggles of a Barren Woman
Chapter 21 Moses’s Two Mothers
Chapter 22 Sisera’s Mother: The Humanization of the Enemy
Chapter 23 Samson’s Mother: A Mother’s Disappointment
Chapter 24 Hannah: “The Barren Has Borne Seven”
Chapter 25 Rizpah: Reflections on a Mother’s Love
Chapter 26 Bathsheba: A Mother with Determination
Chapter 27 Solomon and the Two Mothers
Chapter 28 Jeroboam’s Wife: A Mother’s Agony
Chapter 29 Jesus’s Great-Grandmothers
Chapter 30 The Other Great-Grandmothers of Jesus
Chapter 31 Jezebel: A Great-Grandmother of Jesus
Chapter 32 The Genealogy of Jesus According to His Great-Grandmothers
Part 4
Abused Women
Chapter 33 Dinah, the Daughter of Jacob
Chapter 34 Tamar, the Wife of Er
Chapter 35 The Levite’s Concubine
Chapter 36 Bathsheba, the Wife of Uriah
Chapter 37 Tamar, the Daughter of David
Part 5
Women of Distinction
Chapter 38 Rahab: A Prostitute or an Innkeeper?
Chapter 39 Deborah, A Judge in Israel
Chapter 40 Jael: A Heroine in Israel
Chapter 41 Ruth, the Moabite
Chapter 42 Ahinoam, the Mother of Amnon
Chapter 43 Abishag, the Shunammite
Chapter 44 The Greatness That Was Jezebel
Chapter 45 Esther, the Queen of Persia
Bibliography
Index of Scriptures
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Index of Hebrew Words
I hope you will enjoy reading the book and develop a new appreciation for these amazing women of Ancient Israel.
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
Claude Mariottini
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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>I would be careful about your methodology as you continue with this study. I sense that your desire to discover a radical shift in the perspectives regarding women within the Pentateuch might have colored your reading of certain passages. We must separate the views of the narrator from those of the characters. For instance, the way Shechem views women and the mohar should not be equated with the narrator’s view–in fact, the opposite would be expected. This also goes for Saul since he is not a positive character, etc. Furthermore, the exchange of gifts in marriages in no way signifies that people viewed women as property. If you look at Mesopotamian court cases and marriage documents you will find that monetary/property exchanges were held by the woman’s family or other times by the woman herself, as a form of insurance or security net in the case that her husband died, divorced her, or ran out on her. The woman would then have money to live on and to pass down to her children–this money would not go to the children from a man’s other wives/concubines. Also, selling one’s children into servitude was common and does not indicate women were seen as property. Children were sold for many reasons; sometimes parents did not feel that they could support their children and so they sold them for what they thought was their own good.Lastly, just because a woman was considered as part of a person’s household does not mean that she was considered at the same level as a donkey. I think your treatment of the different Decalogues needs more work as the situation is not as simple as you seem to indicate.
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>Charles,Thank you for your comment. There was a radical shift in the way the book of Deuteronomy viewed women and I believe the Tenth Commandment is one evidence of this shift.Saul’s and Shechem’s views of the mohar probably represent social customs of their days. Maybe my upcoming post will help clarify my position on how Deuteronomy made an attempt at changing the status of women in Israelite society.Claude Mariottini
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I enjoyed reading this post, Professor. I look forward to your follow-up posts. Many women were definitely treated as “property” in biblical times and unfortunately some still are today. Sheri
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Sheri,
I am happy to know you enjoyed reading the post on women and the Tenth Commandment. There are several other issues that need to be explored and I hope to return to this topic soon.
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Claude Mariottini
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