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Unlawful Marriage: An Answer to "The Puritan" and "Omricon," who hale [sic] advocated, in a Pamphlet, the Lawfulness of the Marriage of a Man with His Deceased Wife’s Sister

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Singerman ID#supp0206

Janeway, Jacob Jones. Unlawful Marriage: An Answer to "The Puritan" and "Omricon," who hale [sic] advocated, in a Pamphlet, the Lawfulness of the Marriage of a Man with His Deceased Wife’s Sister. New-York: Robert Carter, 1844. 215 p.

Notes

In addition to his survey of Jewish law as it pertains to the levirate, the author cites the legal opinions of post-Biblical "Talmudists and Karaites." Rinderknecht 44-3407.