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...

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...

infertile. The fraternal equivalent is levirate marriage. From an anthropological standpoint, this type of marriage strengthens the ties between both groups...

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 fathers...

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...

Naomi plans to provide security for herself and Ruth by arranging a levirate marriage with Boaz. She instructs Ruth to uncover Boaz's feet after he had...

of marriages that were practiced historically (though perhaps not much of an issue today) that are forbidden either in the Quran (Levirate marriage) or...

for an extra wife. Polygyny may also result from the practice of levirate marriage. In such cases, the deceased man's heir may inherit his assets and...

among the Akan people of West Africa. Another kind of marriage selection is the levirate marriage in which widows are obligated to marry their husband's...

of ghost marriages are also practiced, for example in France since 1959 (see posthumous marriage; compare levirate marriage and ghost marriage in South...

Beswick (2001), "We Are Bought Like Clothes": The War Over Polygyny and Levirate Marriage in South Sudan, Northeast African Studies, 8(2), pp 35–61, Quote –...

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...

Archive. 16. There is curiously no reference here to the so-called Levirate marriage, at one time practiced in Israel, whereby, if a man died childless...

maintaining 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;...

two brother-sister pairs through marriage. As with other cultures, levirate marriages (where the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his widow)...

specific purpose of siring heirs for another branch of the family (see Levirate marriage). Called "multiple inheritance" (兼祧), if a man is the only son of...

Er is a part, secondarily aims to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin; Er's role in the...

may avoid the duty to marry under the biblical system of yibbum (levirate marriage) The process involves the widow making a declaration, taking off a...

of Saint Joseph instead of Heli and could possibly be the case of Levirate Marriage according to Sextus Julius Africanus. A Hermogenes is briefly mentioned...

women only   Forbidden for both men and women Jewish views on incest Levirate marriage Sex in the Hebrew Bible Forbidden relationships in Judaism Karaites...

cross-cousin. Unlike other systems such as the levirate, the sororate, or uncle-niece marriage, cross-cousin marriage is preferential because for obvious reasons...

impregnate his late brother's wife (either because, this being a Levirate marriage, the resulting child would be considered to belong to Onan's brother...

concepts, the laws of Yibbum (ייבום, loosely translated in English as levirate marriage), and, briefly, with conversion to Judaism. This tractate is the first...

subject to potentially harmful practices, such as widow inheritance or levirate marriage, or social stigmatization. In some cultures, the termination of the...

narrative has a secondary role in either promoting the institution of levirate marriage, or presenting an aetiological myth for its origin; Shelah's role...

to be referring to a biological offspring and an offspring from a Levirate marriage. According to this concept, Joseph may have been a biological descendant...

the beginning of the fourteenth year for men. On the practice of Levirate marriage, the Talmud advised against a large age gap between a man and his...

Monnickendam, Yifat (2019). "Biblical Law in Greco-Roman Attire: The Case of Levirate Marriage in Late Antique Christian Legal Traditions". Journal of Law and Religion...

Weisberg, Dvora E. (2000). "The Babylonian Talmud's Treatment of Levirate Marriage". The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. BRILL...

the widow. It is possible that Hö'elün may have refused to join in levirate marriage with one, resulting in later tensions, or that the author of the Secret...