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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2009
1. Of course, the biblical data suggest that this statement requires some qualification. The ‘episode of the daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers 27 and 36 demonstrates that women could’ inherit, at least when there were no sons; and the statement in Proverbs 31:16 and the transaction recorded in Ruth 4 demonstrate that women could own, buy, and sell property.