(Ish-shah el Achothah).
A WIFE TO HER SISTER:
BEING A
TREATISE IN WHICH THE QUESTION, SO LONG AND
WARMLY DISCUSSED, WHETHER MARRIAGE WITH
A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER IS PROHIBITED,
UNDER THE MOSAIC LAW, IS, IN A CLEAR
AND PRECISE MANNER, PLACED BEFORE
THE ENGLISH READER.
BY
JACOB M. HIRSCHFELDER,
LECTURER IN ORIENTAL LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO.
"And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister to cause jealousy or enmity....in her life time."— Lev. xviii. 18.
TORONTO;
ROWSELL & HUTCHISON.
1878.