Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] family has an interest in transmitting its property within the family, if at all possibl ...

[  ] Mapping the Family family members that were favored by Jews in antiquity, marriages be- tween an uncle and a niece. While ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] not portray the extended family as a source of support for levirate mar- riage. Instead, ...

[  ] [4] Brothers O rdered by his father to “provide offspring for [his] brother,” Ju- dah’s son Onan takes steps to ensure th ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] which of them is best suited to fulfill the levirate obligation that devolves on all of ...

[  ] Brothers The focus on the levir’s right to choose his course of action also re- veals a shift in the understanding of the ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] relationship with his nephew Lot as a brotherly one. The word can be used in an even br ...

[  ] Brothers cal texts on levirate and the redemption of property through marriage to the deceased’s widow indicates that br ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] rate marriage with their brother’s widow or release her from the levirate bond through ...

[  ] Brothers Later in the Book of Ruth, we learn that redemption of property can be carried out by male kin with a more dist ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] Yev a mot : also excludes from levirate obligations brothers who were conceived or b ...

[  ] Brothers h.... The Torah wrote “together” — together in inheritance [which excludes defining brothers as men of the same ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] tion by halitza requires a decision on the part of the deceased’s brother. When there i ...

[  ] Brothers It is the duty of the oldest [brother] to perform levirate marriage. If he doesn’t want to, we go [in turn] to ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] does not acquire the woman as his wife, cannot marry her when he reaches majority if an ...

[  ] Brothers solved, that is, levirate marriage or halitza can occur without any addi- tional disruption to the brothers, wh ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] “to perpetuate the name of the deceased upon his estate” suggest that the child born to ...

[  ] Brothers insisting that “name” does not mean naming the child for the deceased but assigning the deceased’s property to ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] sizes that halitza neither privileges nor penalizes the brother who car- ries out the r ...

[  ] Brothers then, suggest that the philosophy “every man for himself” may be more of a factor in fraternal relations than i ...