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- Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced...
- brother according to the custom of levirate marriage with Er's widow Tamar. Onan refused to perform his duty as a levirate and instead "spilled his seed on...
- Yibbum (pronounced [jibum], Hebrew: ייבום) is the form of levirate marriage found in Judaism. As specified by Deuteronomy 25:5–10, the brother of a man...
- adoptive father; both Joseph and Mary are taken to be David's descendants. Levirate marriage, through which an individual (such as Joseph) may have two legal...
- death of his wife or if his wife has proven infertile. The opposite is levirate marriage. From an anthropological standpoint, this type of marriage strengthens...
- later date than the Levirate marriage (Hebrew practice of marrying brother's widow she has no son), but J. D. Mayne justified levirate union as merely an...
- of Er is a part, secondarily aims to either ****ert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin; Er's role in...
- close relative of Naomi's husband's family, is therefore obliged by the levirate law to marry Ruth, Mahlon's widow, to carry on his family's inheritance...
- supreme authority. Her second marriage is a well-known example of Goguryeo's levirate marriage custom. Lady U was the daughter of U So (우소; 于素). Her birthplace...
- by Julius Afric**** is that both Joseph and his father were the sons of Levirate marriages. A third explanation proposed by Augustine of Hippo is that Joseph...