Bigamy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History of anti-bigamy laws== Even before [[Christianity]] became the official religion of the [[Roman Empire]], [[Diocletian]] and [[Maximian]] passed strict anti-polygamy laws in 285 AD that mandated monogamy as the only form of legal marital relationship, as had traditionally been the case in classical [[Greece]] and [[Rome]].{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} In 393, the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] Emperor [[Theodosius I]] issued an imperial edict to extend the ban on polygamy to Jewish communities. In 1000, Rabbi [[Gershom ben Judah]] ruled polygamy inadmissible within [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] Jewish communities living in a Christian environment. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page