The Levirate and Goel Institutions in the Old Testament ...

and came to an end with the breakdown of the patriarchal family. 37. J. Mittelmann, op. cit., p. 31. 38. In later Jewish writing the meaning of "to succeed to the name" is "to . inherit the property." According to Tannaitic tradition the child of the levirate . union was the levir’s and the levir was the inheritor of the property, cf. S. Belkin, ................
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