. A woman who wants a True HEBREW husband but is not a virgin has the option to become a concubine. Of course, health check and STD tests are required. The concubine was a wife of secondary rank. There are various laws recorded providing for their protection (Ex. 21:7; Deut. 21:10-14), and setting limits to the relation they sustained to the household to which they belonged (Gen. 21:14; 25:6). They had no authority in the family, nor could they share in the household government. There are no passages in the Bible that condemn concubines. YHWH was displeased with Solomons approximately 1,000 wives and concubines. But it was not because of the polygynous arrangement. YHWH was concerned that many of the women were foreigners, and worshiped foreign Gods. They eventually lead Solomon to stray from worshipping YHWH (1 King 11:1-6). There is no indication that YAHSHUA indicated disapproval of any other forms of marriage. He never criticized polygnyous marriages, levirate marriages, or any of the other marriage types mentioned in the bible. John the Baptist criticized Herods polygynous marriage to Herodias. (Matthew 14:3). But the criticism was based on the inappropriate choice of Heodias, since she was the wife of his brother Philip. John did not criticize the fact that it was a polygynous marriage. Some interpret YAHSHUA comments on divorce in (Mark 10:2 & Matthew 19:3) as proof that YAHSHUA supported only the usual one man, one woman type of marriage. But his response So they are no longer two but one. Therefore what YHWH has joined together, let man not separate was in answer to a specific question from the Pharisees: whether a man was allowed to divorce his wife. (Matthew 19:3). Yahshua response, which denied a man the right of a man to divorce his wife, does shows that at least Yahshua acknowledged the nuclear, one-man-one-woman marriage. But it does not exclude support for the other types of family structure, listed above. Polygyny was less common during the 1st century CE than it was in earlier times, but it was still practiced. For example, Herod the Great had nine wives.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:13:44 +0000
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