Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] brother of the deceased by the same father. We said to him: If you wish to marry her, m ...

[  ] Brothers brother — but the reason for the union will actually have nothing to do with the deceased. Such a union, argues ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] levir and yevama, possibly living in close proximity, are aware that a sexual relations ...

[  ] Brothers Halitza: From Communal Condemnation to Judicial Consultation While calling on a man whose brother died without ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] when levirate marriage is not possible, halitza is the only acceptable re- sponse to th ...

[  ] Brothers on him; instead it asks the levir to consider whether a levirate marriage would be good for him. The Yerushalmi ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] may be compounded by the levir’s reaction to being married to a woman who was once his ...

[  ] Brothers widow to enter into a levirate union. Genesis  and Ruth  indicate an interest on the part of the older gener ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] own estate. Levirate is ordered by the head of the family or promoted in the public squ ...

[  ] [5] From Wife to Widow and Back Again T he conditions in which Tamar, the widowed daughter-in-law of Judah, finds hersel ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] The marriage of a widow might be celebrated with less ceremony than that of a virgin, b ...

[  ] From Wife to Widow and Back Again and make vows. We will consider the conditions that render a woman a yevama rather tha ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] her a greater voice in determining her future. As we shall see, there are instances in ...

[  ] From Wife to Widow and Back Again Mishnah-Tosefta Yevamot, particularly in the increasing willingness to employ halitza ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] law’s wife. While concerned with their own authority over the yevama and the process of ...

[  ] From Wife to Widow and Back Again who was bor n du r i ng t he l i fet i me of t he deceased a nd who had t he sa me fat ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] levirs are bound to each other until the situation is resolved through a single act of ...

[  ] From Wife to Widow and Back Again The ambiguity of the yevama’s status is indicated by the laws that govern her economic ...

Levirate Marriage and the Family [  ] retical, since teruma was no longer distributed, but they underscore the limbo in which ...

[  ] From Wife to Widow and Back Again [her] husband.”^46 Her tie to the levir is, on some level, a bond to the de- ceased an ...