Lexicographical Neighbors of Mamzerim
Literary usage of Mamzerim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Samaritans, the Earliest Jewish Sect: Their History, Theology and Literature by James Alan Montgomery (1907)
"... nature as the mamzerim; they are of uncertain origin. The reason for this
attitude toward the sect appears in full in the argument given in Kiddushin, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... above the level of their race, and in the Jewish order of precedence, while
they stood below the mamzerim (bastards, or children of mixed ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"The distinctive nit*. with its brand of inferiority, should be laid as-uU-.
a1, i all, even the Nethinim ami the mamzerim (children • : mixed marriages), ..."
4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"... and in the Jewish order of precedence, while they stood Mow the mamzerim (bastards,
or children of mixed marriages), they were one step above the ..."
5. A Class-book of New Testament History by George Frederick Maclear (1877)
"The children of such marriages were termed mamzerim (bastards). But even such a
child, if a wise student of the Law, "was, in theory, above an ignorant ..."
6. Jews in Many Lands by Elkan Nathan Adler (1905)
"Indeed, the other Jews look down upon them as bastards, and call them mamzerim,
and will not enter their synagogue or mix with them. ..."
7. New Testament History by William Smith (1866)
"The children of such marriages were known as mamzerim (bastards), and stood just
above the Nethinim. But the reverence of the Jews for their religion came ..."
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