Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Some people claim we can cut through the knotty divorce scriptures by simply differentiating words and their meanings. Their argument goes like this: (i) The Hebrew word shalach and the Greek word apoluo should be translated 'put away'. Both of those words are used for the husband orally dismissing and sending away his wife without… Continue reading Does Scripture differentiate between ‘putting away’ and ‘divorce’?
Conservative Jewish religious leaders have for thousands of years insisted that in order for a divorce to be legal, the husband must sign the divorce certificate. The essential words in the traditional Jewish divorce certificate were "You are free to marry any man". Jews call this divorce certificate a 'get' – it is a Hebrew… Continue reading The Jewish divorce certificate gave women the right to remarry, but some men used it rule over women
