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:''This article discusses close relatives of Judah. Er is also a name listed by the Gospel of Luke's version of the genealogy of Jesus''. In the biblical Book of Genesis, Er ( "awake; roused"; (ギリシア語:Ἤρ)) was the eldest son of Judah and the daughter of Shuah, his Canaanite wife. He is described as marrying Tamar. According to the text, "the slew" Er because he was wicked, although it does not give any further details. According to Rashi, he, like Onan, purposely tried to keep Tamar from conceiving, in his case because he was afraid of spoiling her beauty. Er had two brothers, Onan and Shelah. The ''Book of Chronicles'' lists another ''Er'' as being one of Shelah's sons. According to biblical scholars, the description of ''Er'' is an eponymous aetiological myth concerning fluctuations in the constituency of the tribe of Judah, with the abrupt death of Er reflecting the death of a clan; the presence of an ''Er'' as a descendant of Shelah, in the ''Book of Chronicles,'' suggests that ''Er'' was in reality the name of a clan that was originally equal in status to the ''Shelah'' clan, but was later subsumed by it.〔〔 The brother - Onan - may represent an Edomite clan named ''Onam'',〔 who are mentioned in an Edomite genealogy in Genesis. Scholars have argued that the Tamar narrative, of which the description of Er is a part, secondarily aims to either assert the institution of levirate marriage, or present an aetiological myth for its origin;〔 Er's role in the narrative would thus be as the background to the main plot, his death being the reason for levirite marriage to become an issue. John Emerton, Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, regards the evidence for this as inconclusive, though classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative concerns the origin of levirate marriage.〔''Genesis Rabbah'' 85:6〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Er (biblical person)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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