{"id":67349,"date":"2015-04-09T13:11:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67349"},"modified":"2015-04-09T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:11:26","slug":"how-does-the-talmud-deal-with-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=67349","title":{"rendered":"How Does The Talmud Deal With Rape?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Kirsch writes<\/a>: “To calculate the exact degree of damage to a woman\u2019s reputation, the mishna lays down a very pragmatic rule: \u201cOne considers her as though she were a maidservant sold in the marketplace, and assesses how much she was worth beforehand and how much she is currently worth.\u201d That is, Shmuel\u2019s father explains in the Gemara, \u201cOne estimates the difference between how much a person is willing to give to purchase a virgin maidservant and how much a person is willing to give to purchase a non-virgin maidservant.\u201d This is a completely \u201cobjective,\u201d market-based way of valuing virginity as a commodity. If it strikes us today as an outrageous way of assessing the damage caused by rape, that is an index of how much our moral intuitions have changed\u2014even, we might say, progressed\u2014since the Talmud was written.”<\/p>\n

Or maybe the Talmud is wiser than we are today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Kirsch writes: “To calculate the exact degree of damage to a woman\u2019s reputation, the mishna lays down a very pragmatic rule: \u201cOne considers her as though she were a maidservant sold in the marketplace, and assesses how much she … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,29181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rape","category-talmud-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t