Biblical Marriage from Ephesians 5:21-33 & Matthew 19:3-12

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What is Biblical Marriage? That is a hard question to answer because there are many biblical marriages. There is Israelite marriage in the time of the Patriarchs, there is Judean marriage in the Second Temple period, there is New Testament Jewish marriage, there is New Testament gentile marriage, there is sacramental marriage as the Catholic Church defines it and there is Protestant marriage. Then all of this is applied to modern American notions of marriage and the nuclear family. I describe what the true purpose of marriage was in the Old Testament and New Testament. I also describe why no modern couple would want to have a biblical marriage. Then I show how modern Christians project our ideas of marriage on the two most commonly quoted passages in the New Testament and how they do and do not apply to us. 

For this I refer to David A. de Silva's "Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity" and Carolyn Osiek's "Early Christian Families in Context"

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