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LoyalGypsy -> RE: Was the woman at the well a floozy? (reading into scripture what's not there.) (4/28/2008 6:34:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ThursdaysChild
OK, I'm skipping the next 2 pages so I hope I'm not repeating someone else's post.
In Walt Wangerin's book, "The Book of God", he depicts her as a woman who had been widowed 5 times. As a result the man in her life in this point was afraid to marry her because he was afraid of her being widowed 6 times. (Kind of reminds me of Henery the 8th I Am.) Anyway, she could have been married several times without the stigma of divorce but still been viewed as an outcast for living with someone not her husband.
I also heard a sermon online (I think John MacArthur) who brought up the point of why she told the men of the city about Him? Because she knew all the men! (And the women probably wouldn't talk to her.) LOL
Greetings,
Well that fits the prophecy, as Jesus said in John 2:11-12
the 5 books are the Torah, in which the women was outcast ..the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile the returning exiles considered the Samaritans to be “non-Jews” and, thus, not fit for this religious work…….. meaning they could not return to the first, which means because they worshiped differently than the Jew ............so the one she was with in that respect was not her husbandman because it was outside the covenant with Israel, = a type of fornication of the faith
But the on prophetic side,
She knew that the Messiah or the husbandman would come, and bring her back into covenant as the bride, not by the mikvah of the Baptism of John (John 4:1-6) but as the bride of Christ....
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In Walt Wangerin's book, "The Book of God", he depicts her as a woman who had been widowed 5 times. As a result the man in her life in this point was afraid to marry her because he was afraid of her being widowed 6 times.
Jesus speaks of 5 brothers of the man in hades, "who is the 6th", now this is in opposite of the women at the well... as we see here…. it is too late for him
27 Then he said, 'I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him (Lazarus)... “to my father's house”….., 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'
29 Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses (=5 the books)..and the prophets; ..Let them hear them.'
Now Depending on whose father the women at the well was according to their worship and customs as influenced by the rise of Seleucus in the area... it will also explain why she went to the men first.
But here is some limited info and some notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans#Religious_beliefs
Ancient Greece started interacting with other cultures through wars, religion started evolving.
Religion in ancient Greece was impacted by Islam, Christianity and early Roman belief system which is evident even today in Greece.
……….Position of Women in Marriage during the Archaic Age:
If a family had a daughter it needed to raise a substantial sum to pay the dowry to her husband.
If there was no son, the daughter passed her father's inheritance to her spouse, for which reason she would be married to a close male relative: cousin or uncle. Normally, she was married a few years after puberty to a man much older than herself.
SO literally we see why she went through 5 husbands
Archaic Age Women in Ancient Athens:
The Word Archaic:
Archaic comes from the Greek arche = beginning (as in "In the beginning was the word....").
………Most of the evidence about women in this time comes from Athens because. Ancient Greece started interacting with other cultures through wars, religion started evolving.
Women were needed to help run the oikos 'home' where she would cook, spin, weave, manage servants and raise the children.
Chores like fetching water and going to market were done by a servant "if" ….the family could afford it.
Higher class women were expected to have a chaperone accompany them when they left the house. Among the middle class, at least in Athens, women were a liability.
So we see because the Samaritans to did not strictly adhere to the Jewish tradition, we see a lot of influxes of culture in the scenario with the women at the well.
LG
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