French translation for "levirate marriage"

(mariage) lévirat

Example Sentences:

	1.	Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Le lévirat est un type particulier de mariage où le frère d'un défunt épouse la veuve de son frère, afin de poursuivre la lignée de son frère.
	2.	Scholars have argued that the Tamar narrative, of which the description of Shelah is a part, secondarily aims to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin; Shelah's role in the narrative would thus be as the example of a brother refusing to perform levirate marriage. Le récit de Tamar, duquel la description de Shelah fait partie, vise secondairement soit à asseoir l'institution du mariage lévirat, soit à présenter un mythe étiologique ; le rôle de Shelah serait alors l'exemple d'un frère refusant le lévirat.
	3.	Scholars have argued that the Tamar narrative, of which the description of Shelah is a part, secondarily aims to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin; Shelah's role in the narrative would thus be as the example of a brother refusing to perform levirate marriage. Le récit de Tamar, duquel la description de Shelah fait partie, vise secondairement soit à asseoir l'institution du mariage lévirat, soit à présenter un mythe étiologique ; le rôle de Shelah serait alors l'exemple d'un frère refusant le lévirat.

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