Wednesday Bible Study: Shoah

I was originally going to title this post res ipsa loquitur because I didn ' t think I really needed to comment. You are commanded to read the whole thing. I do however want to make a few points about this.1) Moses ismarriedto a Midianite woman. There is evidently nothing wrong with that. She has several sisters. Her father was Moses ' s confidante and counselor. I wonder how she felt about all this.2) The incident which precipitated this, described in Chapter 25, made no mention of Balaam. All of a sudden he gets the blame, which seems strange since he was totally respectful of Yahweh and predicted that the Israelites would be invincible. Puzzling. Also, it takes two to tango, as they say. In Ch. 25 the Israelite man gets murdered along with the Midianite woman, but now the entire blame falls on the Midianites.3) Moses is angry that the soldiers didn ' t murder all their noncombatant prisoners, so he order them to kill all the men, women and children except for virgin girls, which they are to keep as slaves. Given that marriage in those days typically occurred shortly after puberty, they are presumably mostly prepubescent. The text is silent on the age at which it is okay to start raping them.4) A large share of animals, sex slaves and precious metal is allocated to God. Since the Big Y presumably has no particular use for any of this personally, it actually goes to the priests.5) As always, the Bible totally affirms the Right to Life. All those boy babies and children, preg...
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