http://pursiful.com/2008/02/a-hurrian-cadre-in-king-davids-court/ Darrell Pursiful's blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:54:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://pursiful.com/2008/02/a-hurrian-cadre-in-king-davids-court/comment-page-1/#comment-6763 >Hurrians in King David’s Court | Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:50:26 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=618#comment-6763 [...] Darrell’s article is very informative. Readers who are unfamiliar with the Hurrians are encouraged to visit Darrell’s blog and read his post. The post is found here. [...] [...] Darrell’s article is very informative. Readers who are unfamiliar with the Hurrians are encouraged to visit Darrell’s blog and read his post. The post is found here. [...]

]]> http://pursiful.com/2008/02/a-hurrian-cadre-in-king-davids-court/comment-page-1/#comment-6727 Anakarsis Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:10:04 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=618#comment-6727 Hurrians left behind a good number of marriage contracts, none of them say a word of marriage age, but it is shown there that most marriage were preceded by the adoption of the future husband into the family of the girl; a formal process to ensure that the guy could inherit the lands from the father of the girl as one of his sons (as Hurrian law prevented any non-family member to be inherited land). So we have a society were the property belongs to male alone (patriarchy) but were the husband always go to live in the household of his wife, and not vice-versa (matrilocality), and were marriage is what gives a guy rights to the land. In these circumstances, i suspect that they get married young, but not too young, as the husband were seen as an adopted brother (then has to have probably at least CLOSE age) while he has to be already economically active, as marriage was a mean to access to land, so im inclined for a young normal age of marriage for girls of between 15 and 20 yo, perhaps 16 to 20 Hurrians left behind a good number of marriage contracts, none of them say a word of marriage age, but it is shown there that most marriage were preceded by the adoption of the future husband into the family of the girl; a formal process to ensure that the guy could inherit the lands from the father of the girl as one of his sons (as Hurrian law prevented any non-family member to be inherited land). So we have a society were the property belongs to male alone (patriarchy) but were the husband always go to live in the household of his wife, and not vice-versa (matrilocality), and were marriage is what gives a guy rights to the land. In these circumstances, i suspect that they get married young, but not too young, as the husband were seen as an adopted brother (then has to have probably at least CLOSE age) while he has to be already economically active, as marriage was a mean to access to land, so im inclined for a young normal age of marriage for girls of between 15 and 20 yo, perhaps 16 to 20

]]> http://pursiful.com/2008/02/a-hurrian-cadre-in-king-davids-court/comment-page-1/#comment-866 Karole Stout Mon, 12 May 2008 14:39:22 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=618#comment-866 I am trying to find out at what age Hurrian girls were ready for marriage or given in marriage. Could someone give me some info? thanks..Karole I am trying to find out at what age Hurrian girls were ready for marriage or given in marriage. Could someone give me some info? thanks..Karole

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