TY  - BOOK
AU  - Witte Jr, John
AU  - Witte Jr,John
TI  - The Sins of the Fathers:  The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered
SN  - 9780521839419
U1  - C93 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction : The paradoxes of illegitimacy ...1  1 Suffer the innocent children : illegitimacy in early judaism and christianity ...11  2 Woe to bastards : The classical roman law of illegitimacy and legitimation ...49  3 The wages of sin : Ses, marriage, and illegitimacy in medieval canon law ...73  4 Heir of no one : the English common law of illegitimacy and its reforms ...105  5 The rights of all children : The new law of non materital childhood in America and beyond ...135  Concluding reflections ...167  Bibliography ...185  Index to biblical sources ...204  Subject index ...207
ER  -