Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities : Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud

by Christine E. Hayes

2020-07-23 00:05:05

In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Hayes argues that different views of the possibility of conversion, based on varying ideas about Gentile impurity, were the ke... Read more
In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Hayes argues that different views of the possibility of conversion, based on varying ideas about Gentile impurity, were the key factor in the formation of Jewish sects inthe second temple period, and in the separation of the early Christian Church from what later became rabbinic Judaism. Less

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File size9.26x6.35x1.11inches
Print pages328
PublisherOxford University Press, USA
Publication date November 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195151206

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