Women are people, you should at least acknowledge that.
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“I just listened to my first of this podcast: Judges Chap. 20, 21 end.
I was completely shocked that not once did he mention how terrible it was for the old man to let his concubine to be repeatedly raped and tortured until she died. Perhaps he thought it was obvious to everyone and didn’t feel he needed to mention it but he did mention how terrible it was that he chopped her up into pieces afterwards (because it violates Jewish law)? I think that was the least of the sins committed in this story.
Not once did he talk about women as people, instead he talked about them as technicalities that were necessary to preserve the Jewish line. I understand that the men at this time didn’t treat women well, but who wants their daughter to be kidnapped and raped by strangers to keep a fellow tribe’s bloodline going? Not once did he bring any humanity to the situation or talk about how terrible women are treated through this whole ordeal. He didn’t talk about how cowardly it was to send out someone else to get raped to death or how the women must feel in all of this.
These men killed the whole tribe of Jabesh Gilead, kidnapped the unmarried women, and then gave them to the tribe of Benjamin to be forcefully married to men they had never met who just fought a battle to defend men who raped a concubine to death. Could you imagine your whole family murdered and then being raped by your new “husband” while still grieving for your family?
Why is none of that brought up in his commentary?
Then after this whole terrifying story and explanation afterwards (which seems to justify their behavior because it was “normal in that time”) the speaker has the audacity to suggest that we are living in the time of the Judges. Uh… I’m pretty sure that everyone I’ve ever met agrees that what happened in this story is NOT ok. How is now like the time of Judges?
Then he goes on to say that we are acting outwardly righteous like these men were?!? At what point is what they did righteous, even outwardly? Every single action in this whole story is terrible. Not a single good thing happens in this whole story. It makes Game of Thrones look like a children’s story.
I can’t imagine listening to a single other chapter of this podcast. Granted, the first chapter of this podcast that I listened to is one of the most difficult stories in the whole Torah (the whole Bible really), but I didn’t like a single piece of his commentary. I am giving it two stars because it was at least well researched although entirely devoid of any feeling or human emotion.”
Terbie via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/17/14
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