HIST 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Torah
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From the pentateuch (hebrew oral traditions, commandments, and origin stories/history). Oldest has to get married before the youngest. Everyone wants kids, rachel jealous of leah at first for being fertile, jacob sleeping with servants to have kids. Proverbs: what it means to be a woman. Wife of noble character, provides food for family, works hard/vigorously. She watches over the affairs of her household . Had to invoke his laws against his own daughter julia. Hoped to elevate the moral and numbers of the upper classes. Upper classes: marriage was increasingly infrequent and, many couples who did marry failed to produce offspring . Punishable by death (or exile, confiscation of property). Augustan social laws=badly received, modified in 9 bce. By the 6/4th century, many of these laws were repealed by the christian church, led to disuse under roman emperor constantine. Need women (even if they suck) => because of how nature works in terms of childbearing.
