tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post1674962482350376237..comments2023-06-27T07:36:43.952-04:00Comments on Rev. Laurie Brock: To Saint Josephrevlauriebrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07678346331976194571noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-8778506588027801722012-03-22T04:38:02.701-04:002012-03-22T04:38:02.701-04:00I am talking about judicial executions above. Wome...I am talking about judicial executions above. Women suspected of adultery could certainly be murdered by jealous fiancees and husbands, as they can be even today in Western cultures. But this is not what you were talking about. You were talking about a Torah-sanctioned execution for adultery, and that would not have happened (even though the law was on the books). Please look at this site:<br /><br />http://www.myjewishlearning.com/life/Life_Events/Death_and_Mourning/About_Death_and_Mourning/Death_Penalty.shtml<br /><br />(And, BTW, I am Christian).Roger Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048294908244148929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2467092921624269928.post-16986054258877743072012-03-22T04:24:24.940-04:002012-03-22T04:24:24.940-04:00"Joseph could certainly publicly denounce her..."Joseph could certainly publicly denounce her, and she would be stoned to death, but he does not want her to be killed." This shows a lack of knowledge of what laws were actually enforced by Jewry in the Greco-Roman era, or in any post-exilic period including Persian Yehud. No, women were not stoned to death for sexual offenses in Jesus' time or any time since ~500 years before Jesus! The judicial stipulations of Deuteronomy and Leviticus (and Exodus) were not enforced in Herodian Palestine or, for that matter, in Hasmonean Palestine prior to Herod The story of the woman caught in adultery whose release Jesus engineers is certainly apocryphal and is not in the earliest manuscripts. Over-dramatizing the story will only win approval from those who are ignorant of Near Eastern history during this epoch. Going a but southwards, Arab tribes did not stone women for adultery until the rise of Islam 600 years later.Roger Keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048294908244148929noreply@blogger.com