[B-Greek] Mt 1:18 hEUREQH EN GASTRI ECOUSA

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 2 09:22:02 EST 2006



"L. Harris" wrote:

> > According to Jewish custom, the  betrothal was one year. The main purpose
> > of this was to make sure the bride was not pregnant and thus one way to
> > prove her purity.
>
> >May we have your source for this please? Where might the evidence for the
> >existence of this "custom" be found?
>
> I was fortunate to take a real good class on Jewish law and customs many
> years ago, but I found a site on the web that speaks of the custom in part.
>
> http://www.ldolphin.org/risk/ult.shtml
>
> Scroll down to the "The Betrothal"

All I see there with respect to the custom you refer to is another
assertion
that there was such a custom.  There's no reference there to any primary
source,
let alone a primary source that  that testifies to the existence of this
custom
in the first century.  So you have not actually provided me with what I
asked
for or, more importantly, what is actually necessary if we are to accept
that
your claim has any validity.


Jeffrey Gibson
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