NEW BOOK "Whose Son is He?" in Biblical Matrilineal Descent

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Whose Son Is He? tackles one of the Bible's most overlooked questions: when an Israelite woman bears a child by a foreign man, whose son is he? Drawing on seven biblical case studies from Leviticus to Acts, the book traces two Hebrew terms — ben and yalad — that answer this question consistently across the entire canon. It then shows how the same answer is preserved in Igbo customary law through nwa di ana and nwa ime mkpuke, and how the rabbis formalized it in the Talmud's ruling in Kiddushin 68b and Yevamot 45b. The conclusion is the same in every tradition: the child of the Israelite mother is your son — belonging to her people, counted among her family, regardless of who the father is or whether the marriage was ever recognized.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Whose-Son-Isr...lV3JaCA4oW7JqU

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Because the midwife (genderless from Anglo Saxon "with the woman") or whoever knows who the mother is, but even the mother might not know (for many reasons) as to who the father is. In rare cases even twins can have different fathers and it might be neither is the husband (people can be drugged etc).