10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEVIRATION»
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leviration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Three letters ... submiited to the considerationn of the ...
Now it is certainly correct, that, according to the decision and doctrine of the
talmudists, the precept of leviration touches the oldest of the brothers by the
father's side only : but in my Letter already referred to, I have produced some
forcible ...
2
Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary ...
Odozi attests that this expectation was put upon his son (by leviration)12 early on,
when the village sent him to the white man's world “so that [they could] learn his [
the 12 Leviration is the custom whereby a man marries his own brother's ...
3
A Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament: ...
But if the custom of leviration existed, and was to be preserved, the marriage with
the brother's wife could not be unconditionally forbidden. If, on the other hand,
such a marriage was described as uniformly detestable, the custom of leviration ...
Marcus Moritz Kalisch,
1872
4
Widowhood: A Natural Or Cultural Tragedy
Traditional or customary marriage permits leviration, a custom by which a man's
widow is taken over by his brother. Levirate is a marriage within another marriage
, more or less. It emphasises the widow's helplessness. The choice of a husband
...
This custom of leviration is of great antiquity and was introduced by the Indo-
Aryans. ' ' In Bg Veda (X, 18.8) we find the brother of the deceased husband
saying to the widow by the funeral pyre (Asvalayana Grhya Sfitra, IV, 2.18) :—-“
Thou ...
6
Harmful Widowhood Practices in Anambra State: The New ...
LEVIRATION This is the practice whereby the widow is required to get remarried
to a relation of her husband's. The widow is treated like chattel. She is inherited
along-side her husband's other belongings. In Nri whatever man (her husband's
...
7
Encyclopaedia of Primitive Tribes in India
According to Rivers, "polyandry implies certain privileges of leviration. On the
death of a brother, the other has the first right over the widow" (Kapadia, 1959).
Polygyny is permitted because of several socioeconomic reasons. The reasons ...
8
The Indian Ocean in World History
The close trade conracrs with Tanttic India, with irs fakit magicians, leviration, and
mid-ait tope-climbing tticks, inspited the populatiry of Sufi mystics and legends of
magic flying catpers in Baghdad by the eatly renth century. The Sufis, too ...
9
A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Narratives ...
134 — The hypothesis of Africanus inconsistent with the law of leviration, p. 136,
Note 4 — The objections of the Editors, that if the account of the miraculous
conception be true, Jesus could not be the offspring of David, controverted by the
...
10
Modern Judaism; or, A brief account of the opinions, ...
It may gratify the curiosity of the reader, to state some of the discoveries of the
rabbies on this subject. One of these oracles of the synagogue informs us, ' that
the design of the precept of leviration ' was for the benefit of the soul of the
deceased ...