@Tesfalcon , you pulled that completely out of context and quoted the part after the section that I was responding to.
Here is the problem statement:
“In the Bible, he notes, some women seemed to have been in a complex situation such that remarrying was out of thought. They thus ended up being concubines.”
Where do we have an example of women being in such a complex situation that they cannot get married and must settle for concubineage in today’s world?
This is a problem in this type of conversation. It's not always clear what comment goes w what comment. Sorry for the confusion. Even w that verse in Leviticus it doesn't say anything about beating the man so your comment of "not supported in Scripture" would still apply.
As for the "complex situations", I do know of some cases, but it was ALWAYS people who complicated what God makes simple.
Husband goes missing, completely drops out of existance. No bank access. No weird sightings. Just gone. Filed missing persons report. Friends and neighbors got together to look. Nothing.
After 6 months and no sign of him, she presumes him dead. BUT without a body, her church wouldn't sanction her remarriage. So, she finds someone else anyway, goes through all the process except the marriage certificate. Church leaders confront her: living in sin.
"Show me my husband & I will repent and return. Without him, I'm this man's concubine."
Shows notarized letter of voluntary servitude.
They tried to object as it being sin without a "proper marriage".
"But if I went to the state to marry, you'd go back to your first objection that he's not REALLY my husband since my 1st is of unknown wherabouts."
She was on thin ice and nearly disfellowshipped. After 4 yrs, a guy was arrested and IDd her husband as a guy he accidentally killed while robbing him. He got scared, hid the body, and kept quiet until now. Guilty conscience was eating him up.