The family was mostly patrilineal and patrilokal, which means that the inheritance was primary according to the paternal line (if there is no male offspring, also an unmarried daughter was allowed to inherit) and the woman moved to the residence of the husband. The head of the House, the Patriarch presided over the House”. He alone represented the family on the outside and had full authority over people and material also inside the House. At the wedding, she had but no say. The marriage was negotiated by fixing the pairs of parents. Women got married at about 13 14 years old, men 5 6 years later.

Task of marriage was procreation to guarantee the continuity of the male blood line, as well as to increase the existing material goods. If a man has taken without asking her father and her mother, the daughter of another man, and has organized a wedding feast, but entered no formal commitment with her father and her mother, the daughter is, even though she has lived one year in the home of the man, no lawful wife.” 12 the lawyer Irene Severity should be concluded after dunker in their conclusions 13, especially in comparison with other ancient Near Eastern sources women in CH would have had a very strong position and participated in the legal life basically on an equal footing with men. Only in the later centuries the women in a subordinate position was pushed back. In fact, many of the results are suitable to support this statement. Other well-known ancient societies, which are commonly represented in contrast to Babylon as the origin of Western freedom and individuality, treated women and slaves more than objects and Gewaltunterworfene, than was the case in the CH.” 14 the free woman was fully legal and contractually capable. She could freely dispose of their own assets. But you were closed, many professions such as in the Administration, to the knowledge of the Scriptures was necessary.