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According to the Bible, Shelah/Shela () was the youngest brother among Judah's first three sons, and was born at Chezib. ==Biblical narrative== In the text, after Yahweh had killed Shelah's two older brothers, namely Er and Onan, Judah was unwilling to allow Tamar, who had been successively Er's and Onan's wife, to be married to Shelah; Judah's concern was that Tamar might be cursed and Shelah might die if married to her, and so he told her to wait until Shelah had grown up; but when Shelah did, Judah neglected to marry him to Tamar. In the Book of Chronicles, ''Shelah'' is identified as the name of a clan, containing a subclan named ''Er'', most likely named to honor his deceased eldest brother. The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were: #Er, the father of Lecah #Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers of the house of Ashbea #Jokim, the men of Chozeba #Joash #Saraph, who ruled in Moab #Jashubi-Lehem These were the potters and those who dwell at Netaim and Gederah; there they dwelt with the king for his work. According to biblical scholars, the description of ''Shelah'' is an eponymous aetiological myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with ''Shelah'' representing the newest clan to become part of the tribe;〔J. A. Emerton, ''Judah And Tamar''〕〔Cheyne and Black, ''Encyclopedia Biblica''〕 the Book of Chronicles' description of ''Er'' as a descendant of Shelah, suggests that ''Er'' was in reality the name of a clan that was originally equal in status to the ''Shelah'' clan, but was later subsumed by it.〔〔Cheyne and Black, ''Encyclopedia Biblica''〕 Scholars have argued that the Tamar narrative, of which the description of Shelah is a part, secondarily aims to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin;〔 Shelah's role in the narrative would thus be as the example of a brother refusing to perform levirate marriage.〔 John Emerton regards the evidence for this as inconclusive, though classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative concerns the origin of levirate marriage.〔''Genesis Rabbah'' 85:6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shelah (son of Judah)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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