gbaji wrote:
Wow. You're right. That's totally not an example of women exerting any control over their own lives in the OT.
It's a great example of a woman exerting control over her daughter's life, I guess. Wow, way to crack the Biblical code that women pressured daughters into getting married! You're like Tom Hanks or something!
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Er... If that's how you choose to interpret things.
I'm going to go with "Gbaji didn't know what he was talking about and started casting about" which would make sense since you were just defending your choice of the Book of Ruth to Lolgaxe when he suggested that you actually read it. You know, instead of maybe reading it. But, hey, maybe you found a review for it on a conservative blog somewhere that cherry-picked the parts you like most
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Either way, the point is that the idea that no women in the OT ever had any power or influence is absurd.
If the best evidence you have of this is a woman who literally does one thing (tells some guy to fight an army) then I wouldn't be too proud of the case you assembled.