Answering Questions About Marriage in the Hebrew Bible

Answering Questions About Marriage in the Hebrew Bible

Despite the obviously patriarchal culture in which it was written, women play a surprisingly prominent role in many of the Bible’s most important stories, and married women often interact with their husbands in ways that one might expect husbands and wives to interact in marriages today. At the same time, however, aspects of the marital relationship continue to feel both foreign and antiquated to modern readers. Meanwhile, other questions about …