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Verses 28\u201329 of our chapter deal with the rape of a single woman who is not betrothed. The rapist must pay fifty shekels of silver to the woman\u2019s father and marry her, and he is prohibited from ever divorcing her.<\/span><\/p>\n

This response to rape is deeply disturbing from a contemporary point of view. We can only imagine how awful it would be for a woman to be married to her rapist and forced to live with him for the rest of his life. It may be that in the ancient context, marriage would at least have provided the woman with an assurance of economic support. But the biblical law is not concerned primarily with justice for the woman but for her father.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage in the ancient Near East was to some extent a financial transaction: the prospective groom would pay a \u201cbride price\u201d to the prospective bride\u2019s father. Since virgins were more highly valued, a man who raped a virgin would be depriving her father of a higher bride price. This law requires the rapist to compensate the father for that loss and ensures that the father will not have to support her in the case of a divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n

This law has a parallel in the Middle Assyrian Laws, which are believed to have been written around 1076 BCE. (Most scholars date the earliest version of Deuteronomy to 622 BCE.) In this law, too, the rapist must compensate the father for the lost bride price. But there is a striking difference: If the rapist is unmarried, he must marry his victim, but if he is married, his own wife is raped!<\/span><\/p>\n

Vicarious punishments like raping a rapist\u2019s wife are also found elsewhere in Mesopotamian law. For example, the Code of Hammurabi states that if a man builds a house and it falls and kills the owner\u2019s son, the builder\u2019s son must be put to death. In contrast, Deuteronomy says: \u201cParents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime\u201d (24:16). <\/span><\/p>\n

Biblical law does not provide the justice we would like to see for a victim of rape. 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