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whatusername on Aug 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Family trees: Tracing the world's ancestor

Except that Judaism has a form of Matrilineality so King David/etc were probably bad examples.

tezza on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

Matrilineality is mostly from the Talmud , a collection of Rabbinic opinion.

The Old Testament / Bible allows both parents to determine Judaism in the child.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud

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