Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] the shaming ceremony described in Deuteronomy had been abandoned in the post-exilic peri ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah society, levirate might represent the sense of duty of the deceased’s ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] virate marriage. In communities where polygyny is rare, levirate may come to be regarded ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah astic about levirate marriage. Both Deuteronomy and Genesis indicate a ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] When a woman is left childless on her husband’s death, the husband’s brother shall marry ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah Levirate is also mentioned in the three synoptic Gospels. In each of t ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] They offered a general rule regarding the yevama {lit. “sister- in-law,” this term is us ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah ship between a man and a woman who have undergone halitza; t hey a re ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] like a “normal” widow in that her freedom to remarry is compromised by her bond with the ...

[  ] Levirate from the Hebrew Bible Through the Mishnah saw both levirate marriage and halitza as acceptable responses to the ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] gest the possibility of involvement of the extended family, particularly the parents of ...

[  ] [3] Mapping the Family T he death of one of its members can throw a family into disarray. In the case of a childless coup ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] may now find themselves sharing a home and a husband. If the deceased left several broth ...

[  ] Mapping the Family origin, a unit usually consisting of parents and children, or the nuclear family that he has created a ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] family, ensuring that we use scholarly tools rather than impose our own notions of famil ...

[  ] Mapping the Family would depend on the longevity or fecundity of its members at a particu- lar time. The term beit av, wh ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] no residential basis and is best understood as “the enlargement of the kinship circle to ...

[  ] Mapping the Family devolves on “his nearest relative in his own clan,” presumably a member of his patrilineage. These ins ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] binic literature is the nuclear family, the family composed of a man, his wife, and thei ...

[  ] Mapping the Family ferred to as Ego) and his kin. A kinship nomenclature system may equate some uncles and aunts with Ego ...