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A child whose mother is known, but not the father, was known as "silent one" (Hebrew: shetuki), and fell into the same category as a foundling; [19] this status, however, could be changed if the mother knew and revealed the identity of the father. [19] The mamzer status is hereditary – a child of a mamzer (whether mother or father) is also a ...
It is also one of three accounts of "sperm stealing" in the Bible, in which a woman seduces a male relative under false pretenses in order to become pregnant. [16] According to a footnote in the New English Bible this is an unflattering origin story of the Ammonites and the Moabites, the two traditional enemies of Israel.
Ipsen, Avaren, "Solomon and the Two Prostitutes" Archived 2015-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Bible and Critical Theory 3/1 (2007), pp. 2.1–2.12; Lasine, Stuart, "The Riddle of Solomon’s Judgment and the Riddle of Human Nature in the Hebrew Bible", Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 45 (1989), pp. 61–86
Ion was the illegitimate child of Creüsa, ... who is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the ancestor of the Greek people, but in the Bible, ...
A common concern when adopting a Jewish-born child is whether the pregnancy has occurred as a result of incest or adultery. Should this be the case, the child is considered illegitimate and takes on the status of a mamzer. [4] Jewish law forbids a mamzer from marrying another Jew of legitimate birth, which is the majority of the Jewish ...
An illegitimate child, one whose parents were not legally married, usually has the same claims as any other child under statutory inheritance. Nowadays legitimacy rarely affects an individual's ...
In most national jurisdictions, the status of a child as a legitimate or illegitimate heir could be changed—in either direction—under the civil law: A legislative act could deprive a child of legitimacy; conversely, a marriage between the previously unmarried parents, usually within a specified time, such as a year, could retroactively ...
In addition to his two children with the Queen's sister, Lady Sarah Chatto and David Armstrong-Jones, and a daughter, Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones, with his second wife Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg, the ...