A normatização do casamento judaíta no Deuteronômio (séculos VIII-V a.C.)

Abstract

Marriage found in biblical traditions has become a paradigmatic model in Western societies up to the present day. Its definition usually varies according to the historical context, but in all contexts marriage has as its main purpose the family institution. Its most primitive history is the result of a political-religious construction coming from the Deuteronomy source, more precisely one of its parts known as the Deuteronomic Code, which included, for the first time in the biblical tradition, legislation aimed at marriage. The objective of this legislation was to create a Judahite identity in the face of a diffuse social and ethnic framework that was established in the Levant between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. In view of this, we will analyze the legal evolution of marriage in the Israelite tradition and the elements that promoted the construction of a new identity. To do so, we will use the concept of representation found in Roger Chartier, which makes it possible to understand how social transformations could be represented as identity signs. The main hypothesis reached with this approach is that marriage was part of a project of national resignification and that its institution promoted an identity delineated from an ethnic-religious conjuncture.