2015/12/01 by Sarah Pearce, SARAH PEARCE · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Classical Antiquity Studies #Medieval and Classical Philosophy
paper · doi:10.2307/j.ctt1b7x683.4
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The laws of the Torah include a clear and unambiguous prohibition of intermarriage between the followers of Moses and the other peoples of the promised land: Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizites, Hivites, and Jebusites (Deut 7:1–4). There must be no relationship, no “covenant” with them. Prefacing a sequence of prohibitions, culminating in the forbidding of intermarriage, the law enjoins only one positive command with respect to the treatment of these peoples: to exterminate them. The reason for the prohibition of intermarriage in this context is spelled out in terms of the inevitability of apostasy from the God of Israel,...