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levirate

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levirate: see marriage marriage, socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family . In all societies the choice of partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a
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If Naomi, a post-menopausal female, returns alone to Bethlehem, she may not call on the custom of levirate obligation.
The determination of social identity in the story of Ruth by Matthews, Victor H. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
2) For variations on this custom, now called levirate marriage, see the story of Tamar and Judah in Genesis 38 and the Torah legislation in Deuteronomy 25:5-10.
Bitterness and friendship: a feminist exegesis of the Book of Ruth by Blotz, Joseph W. / Currents in Theology and Mission
In the context of a discussion of levirate marriage (Deut 25:5-6), he gives as a reason for that historic custom that "eunuchs and the unfruitful were despised.
Jesus in Gender Trouble (1) by Moxnes, Halvor / Cross Currents
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