The Radical Feminism of Deuteronomy?
http://ntwrong.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/the-radical-feminism-of-deuteronomy/10/24/2008
Have a look at the two versions of the "Do Not Covet" Commandment, which Exodus and Deuteronomy claim Yahweh gave to Moses and all Israel, at Mt. Sinai:
Exodus 20.17:
You shall not covet your friend's house. You shall not covet your friend's wife, or his slave, or his maidservant, his cattle, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your friend."Deuteronomy 5.21:
And you shall not covet your friend's wife. And you shall not desire your friend's house, his field, or his slave, or his maidservant, his cattle, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your friend."In a recent blog post, Claude Mariottini makes much of the change in order of the first two coveted items. The result of the change is that women are separated out from the property of their husbands. He rightly notes that Deuteronomy uses a different verb to describe the proscribed desire of a woman. This, claims Mariottini, constitutes "an important change of attitude toward the status of women in Israelite society."
