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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Weisberg, Dvora E. Levirate marriage and the family in ancient Judaism. Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover [N.H.] : University Press of New England, ©2009 (DLC) 2009000999 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dvora E Weisberg |
ISBN: | 1584658258 9781584658252 1282472917 9781282472914 9786612472916 661247291X |
OCLC Number: | 646815624 |
Language Note: | English. |
Awards: | Commended for National Jewish Book Award (Women's Studies) 2009 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 246 pages) : illustrations. |
Contents: | The institution of levirate -- Levirate from the Hebrew Bible through the Mishnah -- Mapping the family -- Brothers -- From wife to widow and back again -- Paternity and continuity -- Conclusion. |
Series Title: | HBI series on Jewish women. |
Responsibility: | Dvora E. Weisberg. |
Abstract:
Provocative exploration of levirate marriage in ancient Judaism that sheds new light on the Jewish family in antiquity and the rabbinic reworking of earlier Israelite law
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