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In the absence of welfare institutions, a Roman woman was expected primarily to look to her children for assistance in widowhood and in old age. Many women, however, had no family members left by the time they reached old age. The aim of this dissertation is to determine how low…

The goal of this thesis is to investigate the law of the levirate (Deuteronomy 25.5–10) and its economical dimensions, while not ignoring the sexual elements associated with it. Comparing the pertinent biblical texts with the laws and customs of neighboring people, this thesis p…

Three widows were selected from Mount Zion Baptist Church to participate in my thesis project on Death and Grief. Their stories are individually told respectively as shared by them during the interview sessions. Although a semi-structured format was used and open-ended questions…