(November 18, 2017 at 5:19 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(November 18, 2017 at 11:54 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: We don't know. Historians assume somewhere around 12 at the youngest to 16 at the oldest because she was engaged and that was the age when people got engaged/married back then.
Mary was supposedly a Jew and according to the Jewish Babylonian Talmud it's acceptable for three-year olds (even two-year olds) to get married. It says that King David knocked up Bathsheba when she was six years old. And the age of consent was seven (7) in America in 1895.
Ugh, man. History.
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