Selfness and Kinship in Medieval Karaite Incest Laws

This essay traces the formation of notions of selfness and kinship in medieval Karaite law through analysis of commentaries on the prohibitions to marry close-kin members. By examining what it takes to become a relative within kinship, either consanguineal or affinal kin-ties, the study explores dif...

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Main Author: David, Joseph E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2019
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2019, Volume: 109, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-202
Further subjects:B Solomon b. David
B corporal union
B Incest
B catenary theory
B Karaite law
B Kinship
B Levi b. Yeft
B Yeshuah b. Yehudah
B one soul
B Anan b. David
B siblinghood
B legal change
B Ya'qub al-Qirqisani
B Consanguinity
B selfness
B family tree
B Yehuda Hadassi
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Summary:This essay traces the formation of notions of selfness and kinship in medieval Karaite law through analysis of commentaries on the prohibitions to marry close-kin members. By examining what it takes to become a relative within kinship, either consanguineal or affinal kin-ties, the study explores different notions of selfness that stand at the base of these legal trends and approaches. It also brings forward Karaite texts that have largely been ignored in modern scholarship; some of these are medieval manuscripts presented in print here for the first time. Karaite authors discussed in the essay include Anan b. David, Ya'qub al-Qirqisani, Levi b. Yeft, Yeshuah b. Yehudah, Solomon b. David, and Yehuda Hadassi.
ISSN:1553-0604
Contains:Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2019.0010