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COMPARITIVE STUDY OF KUKU AND HEBREW CULTURES M. M. NINAN be cut off from the land of the living. The levirate rule can be found in Deut.25:5-10. 'If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go into her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her .... that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.' The question of the Pharisees to Jesus was based on this. The girl will always according to custom will be the wife of the first man. In some clans the girl may accept anyone and is expected to produce children for her dead husband. Because of the polygamy the levirate system is extended to include the young wives of ones father also. When the father dies if he has any young wives of the age of his sons, his sons are expected to accept her as their wives. This is the duty of the eldest son. 19. Punishment among the Kukus. There seems to be vast disparity between Hebrew and Kuku culture in terms of their punishment systems. Among the Kukus there is no capital punishment for any form of crime. The close equivalence to the capital punishment is cursing. When a person commits a serious crime, the elders or the parents will curse the victim and they will eventually die or will die by accident or by wild beasts. Stoning, spearing or lashing are unknown as a punishment to these people. If a man is found to have criminal 157
COMPARITIVE STUDY OF KUKU AND HEBREW CULTURES M. M. NINAN tendencies and is a bad influence in the community, by the decision of the elders he will be advised to leave the land. This again is equivalent to a death sentence as other tribes will most probably kill him if found in their territory. Such people may survive with cunningness and may start a new clan. 20. War War between other tribes are accepted as norm. Killing another tribesman is considered as murder. Intertribal wars for the sake of looting and for women are common. However they never took slaves as war loot. A war prisoner is either killed or released or accepted into the community and is never taken in as a slave. Slavery came to these parts only arts the Arab conquests. Such an attitude can be found through out the old testament period. Thus we see Samuel hacking don Kings of other nations, and David, the man after the heart of God massacring men , women and children. Read 1 Sam. 21:8-1 "Now David and his men went up, and made raids Upon the Geewires, the Birzites and the Amalekttes ..... And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels and the garments." Description of massive raid for women is found in Judges 21 where the whole Israelites took part in the raid of Shiloh for wives for the Benjaminites. 158
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