Endnote 3 – Before Mary: The Ancestresses of Jesus

Brevard S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979), p. 157. In a way, Judah performed the levirate duty for his son without intending to, because of Tamar’s initiative. But Leviticus 18:15 forbids sexual intercourse between a man and his daughter-in-law.