Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism. By Dvora E. Weisberg
In this thoroughly researched publication, Weisberg illustrates the regularity of levirate unions within Judaism despite a variety of reinterpretations of the practice over the course of time. She argues that such reinterpretations occurred in tandem with, or in response to, value-shifts within Jewi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 707-710 |
| Review of: | Levirate marriage and the family in ancient Judaism (Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2009) (Southwood, Katherine)
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| Summary: | In this thoroughly researched publication, Weisberg illustrates the regularity of levirate unions within Judaism despite a variety of reinterpretations of the practice over the course of time. She argues that such reinterpretations occurred in tandem with, or in response to, value-shifts within Jewish communities regarding, amongst other things, the different roles of women, inheritance, and kinship systems., Although by training Weisberg is a scholar of rabbinics, she nevertheless makes an admirable attempt to utilize the range of data concerned with levirate unions. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq081 |