Members of levite family and ideal marriages in Aramaic Levi Document, Visions of Amram, and Jubilees

The marriage practices of the members of the family of Levi in general and their preference to marry within their family in particular have received attention in the recent scholarship. This study analyzes how Jubilees, the Aramaic Levi Document and the Visions of Amram portray the ideal marriages of the members of the Levite family. After carefully reading those passages of these texts, that highlight women and ideal partners, I argue that …