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 5 - Discussion and Conclusions
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
In this book, we examined Ephrem’s matrimonial system in comparison to three different cultural and legal milieus – Jewish, Roman, and Christian. In Ephrem’s days, Christianity was a young religion that arose from Jewish groups, yet it evolved under Roman rule and accepted not only Jews into its communities but also other citizens of the Roman Empire, from Latin-, Greek-, and Syriac-speaking communities. As such, Syriac Christianity was likely to be influenced by Roman law and Greek legal traditions and practices as well as local Semitic and Jewish legal traditions. In fact, apart from the specific issues on which Christianity had a unique stand, such as divorce and asceticism, the early church did not play a significant role in the marriage of its community members. Matrimony only gradually shifted from civil law, which was then Roman law, to religious law, under the authority of the church and its clergy.
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- Jewish Law and Early Christian IdentityBetrothal, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian, pp. 202 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020