A concubine is a slave.

Oh, shit, comment twins!

The easiest and most effective protection is involved parents.

How can it be exposed without legal authorities coming into it?

Yeah. He says that NOW. Back then, the silence from him and others on the show was defeaning.

Why do you care? You don’t have to read anything I write if you feel that way.

*shrug* Probably.

You’re an idiot. And a liar.

*shrug* Okay.

Again, the point is that the guest wasn’t thrown out to be raped. So it is a “guest thing” and if you want to expand your research to Middle Eastern/Greek cultures in ancient times, you’ll find that’s the case. I didn’t make it up, so please stop trying to make it into an argument with me.

It’s all out there to be read. That’s how I learned about it. I’m not saying anything new here. The scholarship on oral traditions in semitic tribes and their influence is well established and vaster than the tiny bit here I’m sharing because I only know a bit myself.

Yes, I see your point now. Okay. My bad.

That’s not what I’m doing, though.

ALSO, the parables in the Bible, Koran, and Torah, are based on real people and situations that then took their reality and made them into moral tales.

That’s what I wrote. Except you did it more succinctly, thanks.

This is the comment I’m replying to: http://jezebel.com/that-passage-f…

I’ve written elsewhere that gender does come into it because the story was obviously about a man’s role as head of household and his honor and word being that of the entire family to the extent that even the virginity of his daughters, that other valuable part of a family’s honor, was secondary.

*shrug* I didn’t create 2000 year old cultural ideals. Sorry.

I think it’s fair that in our contemporary society, you would get that message.