Sexual Violence Against Women and the OT Law (with Sandra Richter)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Many critics of the Bible hold that the OT views women as property and is demeaning toward women. OT scholar Dr. Sandra Richter looks at the parts of the Mosaic law that deal with sexual violence toward women and concludes that, "far fewer lives were ravaged by sexual misconduct in the central hill country of Israel in the Iron Age than in southern California in 2019." Join us as Scott interviews Dr. Richter on this fascinating topic. Dr. Sandra Richter, Ph.D (Harvard), holds the Robe...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:06.0	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School Theology here at
0:10.8	Biola University.
0:11.8	We're here with our guest today Dr.
0:13.2	Sandy Richter who's professor of Old Testament at Westmont College and a specialist in a
0:18.1	very interesting area of Old Testament
0:23.8	hate hate women.
0:28.8	Yes.
0:29.8	because there's some of her work is gone under the heading of does the God of the Old Testament
0:28.1	hate women?
0:29.1	Yes.
0:30.1	Because there's some pretty enigmatic texts of scripture that would seem to indicate that God may
0:38.4	have a problem with women. And you've provided some really good answers to some of those things.
0:43.2	So welcome, great to have you with us.
0:45.6	Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.
0:47.6	It is great to be here.
0:49.0	Thank you for the invitation.
0:51.0	So maybe the best place to start would be to tell us a little bit about the
0:56.6	culture of the ancient Near East and the status of women in that culture.
1:02.0	That's it really is the status of women in that culture.
1:03.0	That's, it really is the essential place to start.
1:07.1	Because for modern readers, Western readers,
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