Yet the Israeli Army has women in combat roles.
So what?
If you think the Old Testament has anything to do with the current State of Israel, you've never read the Old Testament!
But, most folks never have, so you're in good company.
No: It doesn’t. It has women who are armed but they are not in combat roles.
http://www.wnd.com/2001/08/10269/
One thing about this in the US. Women cannot blame men for this, They brought it on themselves, They asked for it.
That's what I thought, too, until I saw this article re-posted here on FR the other day.
(I searched and can't find the recent reposting, so here's the original).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021028/posts
First off, the Israeli army only allows women in LIMITED combat roles. Since the distances are so close in Israel--this makes sense--as nearly everywhere in Israel would be a combat area, if they go to war. They tried full combat roles for women in the 1970s, and famously for a variety of reasons, it didn't work...
More importantly, a majority of Israelis are agnostic or atheist...and besides that, since when do Christians take ethical lessons from even very religious Jews?
Modern Judaism--from a Christian point of view--is a heretical belief system of those who, when the Jewish Messiah came, rejected him, namely Jesus--and whose leaders pushed for his execution. Therefore, to look for what is biblically right or wrong from such a peoples practices--from a Christian point of view--doesn't make sense.
There is no logical reason for Christians to rely on Jewish--let alone SECULAR Jewish--ethics to guide them, any more than they would look to Muslim sharia law...