Inheritance Rights and the Hebrew Levirate Marriage

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INHERITANCE RIGHTS AND THE HEBREW LEVIRATE MARRIAGE Part 1 by ERYL W. DAVIES Bangor, North Wales The right of a widow to inherit the property of her deceased hus- band was a principle which was generally recognized in the cultures of the ancient Near East. In Babylonia, for example, the widow was entitled to inherit the estate of her husband and to enjoy the usufruct of the land (CH2 150). Among the Hittites, too, the wife seems to have enjoyed rights of inheritance in her deceased husband's es- tate x), and documents from Nuzi similarly suggest that a widow could

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