erato skrev:
Nå kan det vel vanskelig hevdes at Jesus mor var katolikk?
Gjennom historien har det vært mange forsøk på å vise at Jesus ikke var jøde, og at familien var en "spesiell" familielinje og at kristendommen hadde røtter til før Kristus (!)
Så hvem vet.
Men jeg vil nok si at valget av illustrasjon tyder på muslimsk/arabisk halvøy tradisjon, og da er man litt ute av sporet. I jødisk tradisjon har det ikke vært forlangt at kvinnene skulle dekke seg til så andre menn ikke kunne se dem. Man hadde gjerne sjal over hodet, og mange trakk sjalets ene ende over nedre del av ansiktet.
Vi har få bilder fra den tiden, men her er ett midten av tredje århundre etter Kristus, fra en jødisk synagoge.
Men som vi ser er det varierende praksis - og jødiske kvinner brukte to forskjellige hodeplagg når de skulle skjule sine trekk godt.
I kristen tradisjon er Josef og Maria gjort til meget ydmyke mennesker - men i virkeligheten var de av kongeætt. Jesus var Kong Davids direkte etterkommer i førtiende ledd, og han var også en ledende rabbiner - så vi kan regne med at hans familie var meget tradisjonstro.
As for Jewish women, there is clear evidence that in the first century they covered their heads not only for prayer but whenever they were outside of their own home. It is said that some Jewish women kept themselves covered at all times. In public, they not only covered their heads, but the lower part of their faces as well. For the women this was a matter of morals, and a religious duty, not merely a matter of style or convenience. Joachim Jeremias describes the Jewish custom.
Eastern women take no part in public life. This was true of Judaism in the time of Jesus, in all cases where Jewish families faithfully observed the Law. When the Jewess of Jerusalem left her house, her face was hidden by an arrangement of two head veils, a head-band on the forehead with bands to the chin, and a hairnet with ribbons and knots, so that her features could not be recognized. It was said that once, for example, a chief priest in Jerusalem did not recognize his own mother when he had to carry out against her the prescribed process for a woman suspected of adultery. Any woman who went out without this headdress, i.e., without her face being hidden, committed such an offence against good taste that her husband had the rightand indeed the dutyto put her away from him, and was under no obligation to pay the sum of money to which, on divorce, the wife had a right by virtue of the marriage contract. There were even women so strict that they did not once uncover their head in the house, women like Qimhit, who, it was said, saw seven sons admitted to the high priesthood, which was regarded as divine reward for her extreme propriety: 'May it [this and that] befall me if the beams of my house have ever seen the hair of my head.' Only in her wedding procession was a bride seen with uncovered head, and then only if she were a virgin, not a widow. (12)
http://www.bible-researcher.com/headcoverings3.html