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The basis of Israelite marriage / by Millar Burrows.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burrows, Millar, 1889-1980.
- Series:
- American oriental series ; v. 15.
- American oriental series ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--Jews.
- Marriage.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 72 pages ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Series known by initialism: AOS
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : American Oriental Society, 1938.
- Contents:
- I. Problem, materials, and method
- The problem
- Methodological presuppositions
- The materials and their significance
- Plan of presentation
- II. Thesis
- The primacy of the family
- The woman's value for the family
- The principle of compensation
- The significance of the gift
- The mohar as a compensation-gift
- The relation between compensation and purchase
- Summary
- III. Arguments for marriage by purchase
- The meaning of the words mohar and terhatu
- The decisive moment in the transaction
- The real value of the mohar and terhatu
- Adoption for marriage or concubinage
- The wife as object of the transaction
- The use of words denoting ownership
- Other indications of ownership
- The use of the words meaning 'buy' or 'sell'
- Summary and conclusion
- IV. Arguments against marriage by purchase
- Marriage without terhatu and by certificate
- The prophetic use of marriage as a symbol of the covenant
- The independent position of the wife
- The wife's continued connection with her own family
- Marriage without traditio puellae
- The inadequate amount of the terhatu
- The dowry
- The bridegroom's gift to the bride
- The relation between the various gifts
- The payment of the terhatu in advance
- Marriage older than sale
- V. Alternative explanations
- The price of the children
- The price of the ius mariti
- Remunerations
- Notes:
- "Abbreviations" (bibliographical): p. vii-viii.
- "Abbreviations" (bibliographical): pages vii-viii.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Burrows, Millar, 1889-1980. Basis of Israelite marriage.
- OCLC:
- 1004502
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