The Mishnah adds further humiliation to the biblical sotah ritual for a suspected adulteress. Other rabbinic texts from the same period critique this expansion, as well as the gender inequality inherent in the ritual itself.Past PaleoJudaica posts on the Sotah (Sota) rite are here, here, here, here, here (was the rite actually discontinued?), and here.
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