And, while I am too lazy to dig up the scriptural cite, I do remember there is a passage in the Bible that when a man and woman marry they become one flesh. This concept wouldn’t fly with polygyny.
Genesis 2:24.
Obviously the verse does not intend it in the sense you do, simply because Abraham, Jacob, David and many others were polygynous (and the fact that Jewish law allows it).
Zev Steinhardt
What about a woman with more than one husband? I’m guessing that’s not allowed?
I was referring to the NT, as my reply was to a post of yours where you referred to Christians. Unless I fried some brain cells, I recall that there is a mention in the NT of a man and woman becoming one flesh. I had presumed that at the time that was written Judaism was monogamous, and they meant it in that context. Of course if they meant it in the context of that passage in Genesis, I am in error.
That would be correct. Polyandry was was never permitted in Jewish law.
Zev Steinhardt
He did? Who was the nobleman? An actual second “full” wife or a concubine?
Full wife. The man was Philip, Landgrave of Hesse. I was mistaken about the childless part, though- Philip had several children by his first wife, he just happened to be in love with a second woman as well. (Needless to say he was fairly powerful at a time when Luther needed a powerful ally.)
Thanks for answering my questions, zev_steinhardt.
You’re welcome J8099. We live to serve.
Zev Steinhardt