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Deut. 21 Treatment of female POW's:
Common ANE treatment of female POW's:
"As Christians read this text, it begins to dawn on them that the Bible contains a war ethic that includes 'grabbing hot-looking women' as wives. This should rightly be a disturbing feature within the text as we read our Bibles today."
1. Static/ Stationary Appropriation
2. Redemptive Movement/ Redemptive Spirit Appropriation
“If it were a matter to be determined by personal sympathies, tastes, or feelings, I should be as ready as any man to condemn the institution of slavery, for all my prejudices of education habit, and social position stand entirely opposed to it. But as a Christian … I am compelled to submit my weak and erring intellect to the authority of the almighty For then only can I be safe in my conclusions.”
- John Henry Hopkins
1. Historical and social context
2. Canonical context
10 When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Museum Piece analogy
Similar to Christians copying and pasting Scripture to their lives
Most Christians do not punish children in the same way that the Bible seemingly prescribes (Proverbs)
Webb argues this is evidence of a significant ethical movement toward the improvement of discipline for children