Opinion
Does the Bible say a woman should be forced to marry her rapist?
The briefing
A rabbi argues that Deuteronomy 22:28-29 has been badly served by English translations that render the Hebrew taphas as "seizes" or "rapes." He shows the same word used elsewhere for handling a harp or handling the law, and argues innah, translated "humbled," describes a voluntary act as it does in the Day of Atonement fast. Read in Hebrew and in context, he concludes, the passage describes relations outside marriage and a requirement that the man do right by the woman.
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