Keywords
status of women, Old Testament marriage, covenants
Abstract
In his book Marriage as a Covenant, author Gordon Paul Hugenberger begins with the late 20th century Bible-studies insight that in Israel, covenants were devices used to make binding on unrelated persons the same obligations blood relatives owed to each other. So by covenant, marriage partners became one bone and flesh. This thorough study of the Hebrew Bible and related literatures argues that the view of marriage as a covenant in Malachi 2:10‒16 echoes the first marriage in Genesis 2 and is consistent with the other passages in the Bible that have often been mistakenly interpreted to promote a patriarchalist view denigrating the position of wives vis-à-vis their husbands.
Recommended Citation
Reynolds, Noel B.
(2018)
"The Status of Women in Old Testament Marriage,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 28, Article 15.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol28/iss1/15
