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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40571| Title: | Retrieving the tradition: excerpts from past issues of Melita Theologica : ‘Sex and Love in the Old Testament’ |
| Authors: | Sant, Carmelo |
| Keywords: | Bible. Old Testament Sex -- Religious aspects Love -- Religious aspects Marriage -- Religious aspects |
| Issue Date: | 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Faculty of Theology |
| Citation: | Sant, C. (2016). Retrieving the tradition: excerpts from past issues of Melita Theologica : “Sex and Love in the Old Testament”. Melita Theologica, 66(1), 105–106. |
| Abstract: | The Old Testament theology of marriage went beyond the narrow concept of a purely legal covenant or a passing physical union; it rendered divorce and polygamy impossible for one believing strongly in it. In fact, in later Judaism both of them became less and less common. The concept of the happy marriage with the wife as the mistress of the house became a common theme for the wisdom literature: quote Sirach 26:13-18. This was the ideal Jewish home on the eve of the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/40571 |
| ISSN: | 10129588 |
| Appears in Collections: | MT - Volume 66, Issue 1 - 2016 MT - Volume 66, Issue 1 - 2016 |
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