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Part I — The Pentateuch (1895)
The Book of Deuteronomy
The law restated and the committee's verdict on it: women invisible in Israel's civil and religious life, marriage and divorce rules that treat wives as property, and — in Hanaford's and Gestefeld's comments — the question of what a just God could have to do with statutes like these.
Women ignored in the civil and religious orderMarriage, divorce and the captive womanThe stranger and the widowMoses' farewell restatement of the law