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Found an error, but in case he doesn't fix it, from: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_systems_very_different_12/Book_Draft/Systems/Jew
by DiffEq 8y ago
Found an error, but in case he doesn't fix it, from:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_systems_very_different_12/Book_Draft/Systems/JewishLawChapter.html http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...
He says:
"The biblical rules, which set twelve and a half as the age of female adulthood"
The Bible is very clear that a male or female become adults at age 20.
See Exodus 12, 38; Numbers 11,14; 1 Chronicles 31:17, Ezra 3:8 and there are probably some more scriptures that show it.
- bribroder 8y agoAs with most bible passages, earlier texts may or may not line up... The twelve-and-a-half rule is from the Babylonian Talmud: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU-nBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU-nBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=one...
- DiffEq 8y agoSo the Talmud is not the Bible though. The Bible, the Old Testament and what the Jews consider Holy Text is the Torah. The Talmud is a body of works of various rabbis; the Talmud mostly the two books of Gemarah and the Mishnah and should not carry the same weight as the Torah. So if one were to consider the Bible (Torah) only, the legal age of an adult appears to be 20. What the Jews did or made up on their own afterwards would be of their own tradition and in some cases in contradiction to the Bible. The Bible - and Jewish tradition many times do not line up. Even in New Testament times there were issues with this - as Jesus had a beef with the Pharisees because they had all these other laws and rules one had to obey that were not part of the Torah.