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To: CitizenUSA; TMA62; RoosterRedux; don-o
I'm pretty sure Prager, being a God-believing Jew, would say God created marriage. It's also true that He had His message carried forth civilizationally, through the Jewish people.

Though I'm not quite sure what happens to Polygamy, Biblically. The Patriarchs and Kings were not one-woman men. And this is never explicitly repudiated. It does seem, historically, that polygamy had become rare among the Jews--- if it had not faded out entirely --- by the Christian era.

I read articles on this a while back in the Jewish Encyclopedia online (both on Monogamy and on Polygamy) and --- if I'm remembering correctly -- over the centuries just before and just after the time of Christ (though they didn't describe the timing that way) it gradualy disappeared. There wasn't a General Council of some kind that specifically rejected it. Polygamy simply became, for most of Judaism, a moot point. Anybody have more information on that?

36 posted on 05/21/2015 11:27:09 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12260-polygamy#anchor3


37 posted on 05/21/2015 11:49:13 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Mrs. Don-o

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/558598/jewish/Does-Jewish-Law-Forbid-Polygamy.htm

The Jewish Encyclopedia is not really a Jewish source. A similar source that is Jewish is

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html


38 posted on 05/21/2015 12:11:57 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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