• @[email protected]
    7•6 months ago

    Here are a few examples of arguments that this entire line of thinking opens you up to:

    1. “keep” is a mistranslation - the original text says הַחֲי֖וּ, which means “let live.”
    2. “young girls” is a mistranslation: “young girls” would be ילדות, but instead this says הַטַּ֣ף, which could mean “children” or “families,”
    3. According to BDB (one of the most widely used English biblical lexicons), sometimes the “word includes (or implies) women as well as children”
    4. Other commentaries say that they were taken not as wives, but as slave workers.

    Why do you want to mess around with all that nonsense? Just use the unambiguous examples from OP’s infographic.

    • @[email protected]
      2•6 months ago

      I was literally just responding to someone saying they didn’t think it happened in the Hebrew Bible. I happen to think it does. If someone is of the opinion that the text here is fine and they’ve studied that much I just assume they’re paying 50 shekels (a bit over 13USD in today’s money) so they can rape someone and have a wife which makes them a garbage person that I have no interest in interacting.

      I’m old and tired. I could give a shit less what the counter arguments are for someone who tries to justify and talk their way around raping kids and/or owning people no matter which Abrahamic nonsense they happen to believe.