biblical law in greco-roman attire: the case of levirate marriage in late antique christian legal traditions

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0621
Nama Orang :	Monnickendam, Yifat






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge - Crime, 2019

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Abstrak	What happened to biblical law when transferred into late antique Christianity? How can answering this question provide a paradigm that helps us understand the rise and develop ment of late antique Christian legal traditions? In the rst centuries of the Common Era, the Christian legal tradition began to evolve in Roman, Greek, rabbinic, and biblical contexts. Focusing on the biblical institution of levirate marriage, this article offers a paradigm that elucidates how Christians might have adopted, adapted, and sometimes rejected their legal heritage; it may illuminate the overall development of Christian legal discourse. Following a short survey of the rabbinic adaptation of biblical levirate marriage and the Roman and Christian rulings regarding this practice, I analyze the Christian exegetical and theological discourse on levirate marriage, focusing on the acceptance or rejection of levirate marriage as a whole and adaptations to the biblical institution. This analysis dem onstrates the disparity between the rabbinic discourse, the Christian and Roman rulings, and the theological and exegetical discourse. It shows how Christians remodeled their bib lical heritage according to Greek and Roman legal concepts, namely the Roman adoption and the Greek epiklerate, and treated it as part of inheritance law and child-parent relation ships, whereas the rabbis used different adaptations and treated it as part of matrimonial law and sexual relationships. This discussion therefore recontextualizes the legal discourse, positioning the Christian approach to levirate marriage as a complex case of legal transplant and adaptation of a legal heritage.
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	Christian legal traditions, Roman law, Greek legal traditions, Talmud, halakha, adoption, epiklerate, levirate marriage, legal transplants
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Tahun Terbit	2019
No. Induk	eja-21-0621
Entri Sumber Data	Cambridge - Crime
Entri Utama Nama orang	Monnickendam, Yifat
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 34, no. 2, p. 136-164
Entri Utama Nama Badan
Barcode	eja-21-0621
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	biblical law in greco-roman attire: the case of levirate marriage in late antique christian legal traditions
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional