Sa mu el 238 booty in the Egyptian markets ( Hertzberg 1964 : 227 ; Edelman 1991 : . ) 264 – 263 Yet there is another issue less discussed by the commentators . Even if the Amalekites spared all the human beings in order to sell them, it is implausible that the Amalekite men, after about a week or more wandering in southern Philistia and Judah, and especially at their big party of eating and drinking, would honor the captives, especially the adult girls and the women . Susan Niditch ( 1993 : 107 ) writes regarding the story the rape of Dinah : “The motif of stealing or raping the women of another group is a very ancient one in traditional narrative, and speaks to one of the most basic dilemmas in human social relations…” . One tends to assume that the Amalekite young men rejoiced in their triumph and felt out of their mind having the captive women at their mercy . Surely they had no inhibitions in attacking and raping the Israelite women, among them David’s two wives, one of them Abiga...
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