Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] family in deciding whether to accept a levir. She may bargain with her husband’s family; ...

The Institution of Levirate [  ] tance. In societies in which levirate is practiced, it is intertwined with the societies’ ass ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] be permitted to marry his father’s wives, except for his own mother.^37 In the event tha ...

The Institution of Levirate [  ] The use of levirate primarily to provide a posthumous heir is evi- dent among Hindus in India ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] [O]n one hand, a man must never have sex with his brother’s wife; on the other hand, he ...

The Institution of Levirate [  ] Manu, levirate may have been widely practiced and accepted in northern India; Jack Goody, too ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] While paternity can now be biologically determined through DNA testing, pre-modern socie ...

The Institution of Levirate [  ] In Chapters  and , we will see that rabbinic levirate law is charac- terized by the assignm ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] A culture’s approach to levirate may change over time. Attitudes to- ward and willingnes ...

[  ] [2] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah T he preceding chapter explored levirate as an institution that ex ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] nificant.^1 Still, the intersection between levirate and other aspects of family law in ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no son, t ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] presence of the elders; the language of the ritual suggests that the widow represents he ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah argue that levirate marriage is a completely altruistic act on the par ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] Levirate in Narrative Texts: Genesis 38 Levirate is central to the narrative of Genesis ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah h i s .”^18 Onan is unwilling to father children for his deceased brot ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] Er is hardly portrayed by Genesis  as “normative.” Most important, Genesis  is focus ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah leaving children.^26 The irony of the punishment laid down in Leviticu ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] than Tamar, whose primary motivation seems to be producing a child. It is Boaz who claim ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah he is nameless, the Bible’s reminder of his refusal to preserve the na ...