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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 by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage (i.e. marriage outside the clan) is forbidden.
A detailed account of a levirate-type marriage in the Hebrew Bible is the unusual union of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar found in Genesis 38:8.The case is not strictly a case of yibbum as Judah was Tamar's father-in-law, and also the case pre-dates the biblical obligation.
The Philadelphia Conference (1869) resolved that "the precept of levirate marriage and of halizah has lost to us all meaning, import, and binding force." The Second Israelite Synod, held in Augsburg (1871), passed a resolution to the same effect, adding that "for the sake of liberty of conscience, however, no rabbi will refuse, on request of ...
For example, in Kenya, for the Nandi, it is infrequent for a widow to participate in levirate marriage, but for the Luo, widow inheritance is a cultural requirement. [10] Inheritance is often distinct from marriage, as "cleansing" practices often are a prerequisite for a widow after the death of her husband.
Qianlong Emperor of Qing dynasty began to allow polygamy for the 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 his father 單傳, and his uncle has no son, then with mutual agreement, he may marry an additional wife.
Yevamot (Hebrew: יבמות, "Brother's Widow", also pronounced Yevamos, or Yavmus) is a tractate of the Talmud that deals with, among other concepts, the laws of Yibbum (ייבום, loosely translated in English as levirate marriage), and, briefly, with conversion to Judaism. This tractate is the first in the order of Nashim (נשים, "Women").
In southern Africa, the ukungenwa custom is linked to the concept of marriage as the binding of two lineages.If a husband dies, his wives are expected to remain within the family group and are inherited by his male relatives (also known as Levirate marriage). [2]
Scholars have argued that the secondary purpose of the narrative about Onan and Tamar, of which the description of Onan is a part, was to either assert the institution of levirate marriage or present a myth for its origin; [39] Onan's role in the narrative is, thus, as the brother abusing his obligations by agreeing to sexual intercourse with ...