RELIGST 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jeremy Hinzman, Hugo Grotius, Levite
16 Feb 2016
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What a person fears most they turn outward against their enemy; then back inward towards themselves. Power over the weaker compensates for the loss of power. Interesting the way it deals with women o o. Work jephthah"s daughters story in the midterm *** Structure of power that trades daughters for military victory. Biblical texts have a tendency to teach logical projections - by the end of judges there are several thousand people dead. Judges tells us something about violence and use of violence. She is in a position where she leaves him and return to her fathers. Woman remains with father who lives in house of bethlehem. Patrilocal = pilegesh (heb) - hebrew term for concubine o o o. V2 - she becomes angry with the levite and becomes unfaithful o. Why does the host protect the levite? o. Man needs to be punished for subverting the social structure. To rape a woman is to abuse another man"s property.
