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To: Sherman Logan

The punishment for rape in the O.T. was death for the rapist, if the rape occurred outside a city, where if the woman cried out, no one could hear her.

If they were inside the city and she didn’t cry out, it was called adultery and both were condemned. It was assumed that if she cried out inside the city, someone would come to her defense.


59 posted on 03/30/2011 2:39:34 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: Graybeard58

Not quite accurate. This was the law for a married woman. It was directed more at whether adultery had been committed rather than the assault on the woman.

For an unmarried woman, the law made no distinction between rape and seduction. In either case the man was forced to marry her, and she him, and he had to pay financial compensation to her father for the loss of value to his daughter. No concern was given to the desires of the woman involved. (Maybe she didn’t want to marry the guy who raped her.)


62 posted on 03/30/2011 2:48:15 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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