Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism

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    M. Yev. 4 : 3.
    . M. Yev. 4 : 4.
    1. M. Yev. 4 :.
    . M. Yev. 4 :.
    3. M. Yev. 6 : 1.
    4. T. Yev. :; M. Yev. 5 : 1 – 6.
    5. T. Yev. :.
    6. M. Ket. 4 :; 1: 1 – 6.
    . M. Ket. 4 :1.
    8. For the former argument, see Belkin, “Levirate and Agnate Marriage,” 98,
    39. For the latter, see Tal Ilan, Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine (Pea-
    body, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996 ), 155.
    9. Satlow, Jewish Marriage in Antiquity, 18 – 189 ; Weisberg, “The Babylonian
    Talmud’s Treatment of Levirate Marriage,” 6 – 65.
    8. M. Yev. : 1 – . See also Sifre Deuteronomy 88.

    
    


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    Sifre Deuteronomy 88.

    
    


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    Mapping the Family (pages 45 – 96 )

    
    
    
    
    1. Robin Fox, Kinship and Marriage (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 196), .
       . Meyers, “The Family in Early Israel,” 19.
    
    
    2. Meyers, “The Family in Early Israel,” 19.
    
    
    3. Num. 5: 14 ; Joshua : 14.
    
    
    4. For examples, see M. Yoma 3 : 9 and M.Taanit : 6 – .
    
    
    5. T. San. 1:1; B. Ket. 44 a; Y. Ket. 4 : 4. This usage reflects the exhortation in
       Deut. :1 that a woman whose husband brought a claim against her virgin-
       ity should be stoned at “the entrance to her father’s house.” See also Num. 3: 4 ;
       3:1.
       . M. Taanit 4 : imagines the priests in a given mishmar living in the same
       town.
    
    
    6. Num. 1 :, , 4, 6, 8. 3, 3, 34 , 36 , 38 , 4, 4.
    
    
    7. Meyers, “The Family in Early Israel,” 13.
       1. Cited in Steinberg, Kinship and Marriage in Genesis, .
    
    
    8. The Bavli proposes that the land in question is the family burial plot.
       1. B. Taanit 31 a. This suggests that while children were credited to their fa-
       ther’s lineage, the lineage of the mother was a factor in determining social posi-
       tion as well.
    
    
    9. For named individuals, T. Peah 4 : 11. For the latter, T. Yev. 1 :1; M. Arakhin
       : 4.
    
    
    10. B. Yev. 15 b; B. RH 18 a; B. Ket. 1b; B. Hullin 8a.
    
    
    11. B. Yev. b.
    
    
    12. B. BB 1 9a – b.
        1. B. Shabbat 1b; B. RH 3a.
    
    
    13. B. Sukkah 8b; B. Qid. 34 a; B. Arakhin 3 b.
    
    
    14. For an extended discussion of the “wife as house” metaphor, see Cynthia
        Baker, Rebuilding the House of Israel (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press,
        ), 48 – 59 ; and Gail Susan Labovitz, My Wife I Called “My House”: Marriage,
        Metaphor and Discourse of Gender. Ph.D. dissertation, Jewish Theological Semi-
        nary of America, .
        . Baker discusses the architecture of houses in Roman Palestine and ar-
        gues that the claim that excavated houses must have been used as residences by
        extended families cannot be substantiated. Her work suggests the mingling of