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Is it Rape or Not

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kuresu
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10-31-2006 8:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 19 by Faith
10-31-2006 4:05 PM

Re: Deuteronomy 21 in context
Am I misreading this, or did you just give Hammurabi's credit to Moses?
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The law of an eye for an eye, for instance, with its exactness of fit between punishment and crime, is a huge improvement over the habit of overkill in the taking of revenge that prevailed in that area at the time. This practice is demonstrated, for instance, in Jacob's sons' murdering of the whole family of Shechem for his rape of their sister, four hundred or so years before Moses. The Law of God tempers such excesses of revenge
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Because quite frankly, historians recognize the Code of Hammurabi as the source for the "eye for an eye" concept. Not moses.
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Unless, of course, I misread your post.
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kuresu
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10-31-2006 9:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 47 by Faith
10-31-2006 8:08 PM

Re: Deuteronomy 21 in context
and the little boys were guilty?
you mean pre-pubescant boys were guilty of seducing israel?
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please forgive me for laughing my head of at this.
little boys pre-pubescant boys guilty of seduction? they don't even know where to put it yet, how the heck can they be guilty?
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10-31-2006 11:18 PM 		Reply to: Message 70 by Faith
10-31-2006 11:05 PM

Re: Deuteronomy 21 in context
but if you've killed the fathers, and let the young survive, they grow up in your culture. they identify with your culture.
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kuresu
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10-31-2006 11:20 PM 		Reply to: Message 66 by Faith
10-31-2006 10:59 PM

Re: Deuteronomy 21 in context
you oughta read some of his laws--the seignors (equivalent of nobility) could kill a person of lesser rank by just paying a small fine. If he killed another seignor, he himself was killed.
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now tell me, how is that "eye for eye"?
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