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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Jewish Marriage Contract

A Study in the Status of the Woman in Jewish Law

by Louis M. Epstein

A classic legal-historical study of the ketubah by a Conservative rabbi and authority on Jewish family law. Epstein traces the development of the marriage contract and the wife's financial rights from biblical times through the Talmud and medieval codes.

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