Book contents
- Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity
- Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Creating a Primary Bond
- Chapter 2 During Betrothal
- Chapter 3 Creating a Marital Bond
- Chapter 4 Breaking a Marital Bond
- Chapter 5 Discussion and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Chapter 3 - Creating a Marital Bond
Can Rape Determine Marital Status?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019
- Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity
- Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Creating a Primary Bond
- Chapter 2 During Betrothal
- Chapter 3 Creating a Marital Bond
- Chapter 4 Breaking a Marital Bond
- Chapter 5 Discussion and Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index
Summary
Emmelia did not want to get married. As a young Christian living in the early fourth-century Eastern Roman Empire, she wanted to devote her life to Jesus. She therefore chose asceticism. But Emmelia was an orphan. She knew that if she were not to marry, she might be abducted and be married to the abductor against her will. Out of this fear, she decided to get married to Basil, and later bore him ten children. Her son, Gregory of Nyssa, told her story.1
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- Jewish Law and Early Christian IdentityBetrothal, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian, pp. 109 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020