Levirate Marriage
Taken from The Women's Bible Commentary
contributor: SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
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Levirate Marriage
In numerous preindustrial societies, a male relative of a deceased man is expected to marry or to have sex with the dead man’s widow. Such relationships, called “levirate” from the Latin levir, “brother-in-law,” vary in form and purpose from culture to culture…
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