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Are the Ten Commandments directed toward a masculine audience?

This may be a semi-niche question, but I recently came across the HuffPost article "The Marginalization of Women: A Biblical Value We Don't Like to Talk About" which makes a polemic argument ...
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Did corporal punishment also apply to women?

In Deuteronomy 25:2-3, it states that a guilty person (usually referred to as he) will be whipped. Deut 25:2-3 (NIV): If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them lie down ...
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What is the meaning of Deuteronomy 25:11-12?

We are told in this verse about the case in which a wife who, in helping her husband fend off an attacker, seizes the attacker by the genitals. The verse tells the husband that he must cut off her ...
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A woman is not to put on a man's dress?

I came across a Christian web page. The subject that caught me was the view on Deut. 22:5 expressed in the page. A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; ...
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