Adamiak, Elżbieta (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II, 2014)
The article ask questions especially on this dimensions of the biblical traditions about marriage which are result of the historical context of their arise and today they seem hardly to receive. First the article shows basic data about the situation of women and men in the patriarchal socio-cultural context of the Bible. In the next step on the example of the history of Jacob and his family polygamy is presented as an accepted model of the marriage at least in some biblical traditions. In the next past the article analyzes the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis and their anthropological and theological content. In the last part the theological-ecclesiological dimension of the marriage symbolic is presented, related to Christ and Church, especially asking for the pre-assumptions about the role of women and men.
