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DISCOVERING TORAH
Chicago Jewish Star; 8/27/2004; E, Shaul; 787 words
; ... prohibited marriages, refuge for fleeing slaves, lending with interest, employer's rights, divorce, kidnapping, converts, Levirate marriage, causing embarrassment, and remembering Amalek. Additionally, it contains 27 positive mitzvot and 47 prohibitions ...
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Ruy y Ester
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1999; Fisher, Eugene J; 787 words
; ... has added an excursus on goel in the Book of Ruth and on the law of the levirate. He argues rather convincingly that the marriage between Boaz and Ruth was not a levirate marriage, primarily because the obligations involved blood relatives, not ...
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Best of L.M. Boyd
Daily Breeze; 8/14/2003; PARESA; 219 words
; ... by colonial times. Hunted out early. [] The London Zoo employs an "Entertainment Director" for the animals. [] Q. What's a "levirate wedding"? A. A marriage, oftentimes compulsory, of a childless widow to her dead husband's brother. Once fairly common in the ...
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TORAH; Family relations are of utmost importance to God
Cleveland Jewish News; 12/23/2005; Gottman Mills, Estelle; 670 words
; Gottman Mills, Estelle Cleveland Jewish News 12-23-2005 Parsha Vayeshev This week ... must marry the widow." This process of levirate marriage ensures the deceased will have ... concerned with family values. The law of levirate marriage, central to the narrative, seems ... Article copyright the Cleveland Jewish ...
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Beware of Stem Cell Theology
The Washington Post; 5/29/2005; Jerome Groopman; 787 words
; ... procreation per se. Onan was supposed to fulfill the obligation of Levirate marriage, the ritual that involves wedding the widow of your ... worked to retain the property of the clan among its progeny. A Levirate obligation as the basis for modern sex education seems far ...
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STEM CELL THEOLOGY NOT A CLEAR-CUT DISCIPLINE.(News)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 6/17/2005; 787 words
; ... procreation per se. Onan was supposed to fulfill the obligation of Levirate marriage, the ritual that involves wedding the widow of your ... worked to retain the property of the clan among its progeny. A Levirate obligation as the basis for modern sex education seems far ...
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The Elders of the City: A Study of the Elders-Laws in Deuteronomy
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 12/1/2002; Vogt, Peter T; 745 words
; ... to downplay the role of the community. Finally, the law of Levirate marriage is analyzed, and Willis concludes that elders here ... him to fulfill his duty to his family by consenting to the levirate marriage. He further maintains that this law represents a peculiar ...
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Echoes Across The Generations
The New York Jewish Week; 12/3/2004; Anonymous; 742 words
; ... his older brother, Judah. Judah marries and has three sons. The oldest marries Tamar and dies. The second rebels against his Levirate responsibility requiring him to marry his brother's widow, and he also dies, whereupon Judah conceals Tamar in her father's ...
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The Elders of the City: a Study of the Elder-Laws in Deuteronomy.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2003; Fox, Nili S.; 729 words
; ... unsolved murder (21:1-9); the case of the rebellious son (21:18-21); the case of a bride accused of unchastity (22:13-21); and the levirate law (25:5-10). For each of these chapters Willis provides a section on comparative evidence from contemporary and ancient sources ...
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Cousin marriage: What do Judeo-Christian texts say? on marrying kin Study claims genetic risk is exaggerated; church rules vary
Chicago Sun-Times; 4/19/2002; Richard N. Ostling; 575 words
; This issue became news when the April issue of the Journal of Genetic Counseling said risks ... half-siblings and certain close in-laws. A noteworthy biblical exception was "levirate marriage." A man was forbidden to marry his brother's wife except when ...
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