RELIGST 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Israelites
23 Apr 2016
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Babylonians don"t allow israelites to do their burial practices. Married 7 times, asmadeaus kills husbands before their wedding nights. Tobias meets sarah there who is predestined for him. Women are absent in the ending of the story, where the angel is revealing himself. Sarah is left out once tobias and sarah get married. Tells the people of the town that she will save them from the army. As a wise and beautiful woman, she pretties herself and goes to the other army. Promises to tell them how to overtake the town. Instead she tricks the general into believing she is going to sleep with him. But when he is passed out drunk, she decapitates her. She brings the head back to town and the general"s army leaves because they don"t have a general anymore. Men see her as a sexual object but her wisdom is more evident.
