There was, however, an important noneconomic event 2,000 years ago that spread the Jewish view—unusual at the time—of marriage as a monogamous institution: the birth of Christianity.This gave me pause, for 2 reasons.
1) Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations viewed marriage as a monogamous institution.
2) Biblical Jewish civilization allowed for multiple wives.
It is even reported that:
Jewish polygamy clashed with Roman monogamy at the time of the early churchThus, the idea that monogamy came into Western culture from Jewish civilization seems just wrong.
So is marriage a matter of body or spirit or economics? Yes!
Two shall become one flesh,
and their pocketbooks shall mesh.
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