Pragmatically, allowing a captured woman who has just lost her family, security, and home as well as possibly seen loved ones die, might just make for a happier 'marriage' and better mother for future children if you allow her a little time to grieve and get closure before you rape her and force her into a 'marriage' that she had no choice in submitting to! (...just saying.)
Also, if she's going to martyr herself/commit suicide, she's had her chance. After that month's time, you're looking at a Survivor.
Maybe it wasn't such a dumb thing after all.
And, btw, the Hebrews certainly weren't the only ancient culture to take captured women as wives. In fact, I think their captives had a little more rights as spelled out in the OT than other cultures of the same period. (But I'm not a historian and may be wrong about that.) I'd think that just naming them as 'wives' gave them more status than that of sex slave/drudge. Women didn't have a lot of choices. Or girls as we would consider them now.
BTW, I like Coyote's pragmatic view on #1 as well.
Pragmatically, allowing a captured woman who has just lost her family, security, and home as well as possibly seen loved ones die, might make for a happier 'marriage' if you allow her a little time to grieve and get closure before you rape her and force her into a 'marriage' that she had no choice in. ...just saying.
Maybe it wasn't such a dumb thing after all.
And, btw, the Hebrews certainly weren't the only ancient culture to take captured women as wives. In fact, I think their captives had a little more rights as spelled out in the OT than other cultures of the same period. (But I'm not a historian and may be wrong about that.) I'd think that just naming them as wives gave them more status than that of sex slave/drudge. Women didn't have a lot of choices. Or girls as we consider them now.
BTW, I like Coyote's pragmatic view on #1 as well.
I would love to make that mushroom one and take it to a potluck and surreptiously drop it off at the serving table. Then to stand back and watch peoples faces as they encountered it while moving through the line.
Also, if she's going to martyr herself/commit suicide, she's had her chance. After that month's time, you're looking at a Survivor.
Maybe it wasn't such a dumb thing after all.
And, btw, the Hebrews certainly weren't the only ancient culture to take captured women as wives. In fact, I think their captives had a little more rights as spelled out in the OT than other cultures of the same period. (But I'm not a historian and may be wrong about that.) I'd think that just naming them as 'wives' gave them more status than that of sex slave/drudge. Women didn't have a lot of choices. Or girls as we would consider them now.
BTW, I like Coyote's pragmatic view on #1 as well.
Maybe it wasn't such a dumb thing after all.
And, btw, the Hebrews certainly weren't the only ancient culture to take captured women as wives. In fact, I think their captives had a little more rights as spelled out in the OT than other cultures of the same period. (But I'm not a historian and may be wrong about that.) I'd think that just naming them as wives gave them more status than that of sex slave/drudge. Women didn't have a lot of choices. Or girls as we consider them now.
BTW, I like Coyote's pragmatic view on #1 as well.