Women in the Bible

Divorced Wife

Matthew 5:31, 19:3, Mark 10:2, Luke 16:18

• Matthew 5:31 It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

• Matthew 19:3 Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?”

• Luke 16:18 “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.”

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “The Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-7)” by Dale C. Allison, Jr.

Books

• “Divorced Wife” (pp. 407-408) by Bernadette J. Brooten in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• “Gospel of Matthew” by Amy-Jill Levine in Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)