- Tamar (Bible)
:"For the rape victim, see
Rape of Tamar . For the wife of Rehoboam, daughter of Absalom, mother of Abijah, seeMaachah . For the place, see Hatzeva Fortress"In the
Bible , Tamar (] and so Judah asked his second son,Onan , to have sex with Tamar, so that the offspring could be declared Er's heir. [] he first tells Tamar to act like awidow , until Shelah, the youngest son, has grown up,] he decided to use a prostitute atEnaim ; the prostitute in question was Tamar, who wore aveil , making herself unrecognisable. [] but when he later sends the goat, she has gone and taken the seal and staff with her. []ignificance
The main motive of the Tamar narrative, is, according to biblical scholars have argued that the narrative secondarily aims to either assert the institution of
levirate marriage , or present an aetiological myth for its origin, since it highlights cases of marriage for pleasure not for having children (Onan), of refusal to perform the marriage (Judah, on behalf of Shelah), and of levirate activities with men related to the dead husband other than fraternally;J. A. Emerton, "Judah And Tamar"] Emerton regards the evidence for this as inconclusive, though classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative concerns the origin of levirate marriage. ["Genesis Rabbah " 85:6] A number of scholars. Tamar, on the other hand, is interpreted as being forgiving and discreet rather than wily] after Joseph had reached 30 years in age. [] The gap, a maximum of 22 years, is somewhat small to contain within it Judah's first marriage, the birth of Er and Onan, Er's marriage to Tamar, Tamar's subsequent pregnancy by Judah, and the birth of Tamar's grandchildren; the passage is also widely regarded as an abrupt change to the surrounding narrative Joseph story. According to textual scholars, the reason for these features is that the passage derives from theJahwist source, while the immediately surrounding narrative is from theElohist , the two being spliced together at a later date.Cheyne and Black, "Encyclopedia Biblica"] ["Jewish Encyclopedia"] [Richard Elliott Friedman , "Who wrote the Bible?"]ee also
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Judah (Biblical figure)
*Vayeshev Notes and citations
External links
* John R. Huddlestun. [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_19.htm Unveiling the Versions: The Tactics of Tamar in Genesis 38:15]
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