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According to Mazess, both men had simply adopted the baptismal certificate of an older deceased relative who shared the same name - an easy feat in Vilcabamba, where intermarriage has resulted in members of the same family sharing identical patronyms and matronyms.
90, 100, 130... who's counting? by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Women poets often dropped their father's or husband's name, and some chose new matronyms such as Bat-Hamah and Bat-Miriam.
Defiant Muse: Feminist Hebrew Poetry by HESS, TAMAR; HASAN-ROKEM, GALIT; KAUFMAN, SHIRLEY / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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