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your question is leading in that you have decided in advance that both have a low opinion of women. This is unfair.
If you take a written work like the Old Testament and consider that it was written 3,500 years ago in order to fairly judge if it shows a low opinion of women one has to examine how women of other cultures AT THE TIME were considered. To judge a 3,500 year old culture in the terms of today's equality is a nonsense. The same is true of the Quran although this was written only 1,400 years ago.
The problem as I see it is not with what is written in these books but with those people in today's society whom insist that we live, literally as did our ancestors 3,500 and 1400 years ago respectively.
There is much to learn from these magnificent books but whatever one learns should be taken and applied to modern day society as the texts should be treated as a living guide to values and NOT dead ancient texts.
P.S.
Just as an illustration to my point of taking the texts in the context of the time they were written - The Hebrew Bible of 3,500 years ago lays out grounds upon which a woman may divorce a man, one of which is his not satisfying her sexually....This at a time when ALL other contemporary cultures afforded a woman no rights at all.
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old testament vs quran. which has a lower opinion of women?
