BIBLICAL LAW IN GRECO-ROMAN ATTIRE: THE CASE OF LEVIRATE MARRIAGE IN LATE ANTIQUE CHRISTIAN LEGAL TRADITIONS

What happened to biblical law when transferred into late antique Christianity? How can answering this question provide a paradigm that helps us understand the rise and development of late antique Christian legal traditions? In the first centuries of the Common Era, the Christian legal tradition bega...

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Main Author: Monnickendam, Yifat 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 136-164
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Late Antiquity / Levirate marriage / Church law
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
HA Bible
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
Further subjects:B Halakha
B levirate marriage
B Roman Law
B epiklerate
B Christian legal traditions
B legal transplants
B Greek legal traditions
B Talmud
B Adoption
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