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

Name: Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud
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ISBN: 9780195151206

ISBN-10: 0195151208

ISBN-13: 9780195151206

Edition: 2002

Authors: Christine E. Hayes

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This book explores the diverse views of Gentile impurity found in Second Temple and rabbinic sources. Christine Hayes seeks to to determine the role such views played in the rise and development of sectarianism within late antique society and in the regulation of Jewish - Gentile interactions. In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity served to define the socio - cultural boundaries between Jews and Gentile others. A proper understanding of Jewish notions of Gentile impurity is therefore crutial to an accurate reconstruction of Jewish atitudes towards, and interaction with non-Jews. Hayes discovers that different views on the question of Gentile impurity led to widely varying…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.42" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Transliteration System


Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities



Introduction



Gentile Impurities in Biblical and Second Temple Sources



Gentile Impurity in the Bible



The Impurity of Gentiles in Second Temple Sources



Impurity, Intermarriage, and Conversion in Second Temple Sources



Intermarriage in the Writings of Paul and the Early Church Fathers



Gentile Impurities in Rabbinic Sources



Gentiles and Ritual Impurity in Rabbinic Sources



Gentiles and Moral Impurity: Rabbinic Attitudes to Intermarriage



Gentiles and Genealogical Impurity: Converts and Their Offspring in Rabbinic Texts



Conclusion



The Impurity of Gentile Lands and Houses: a Refutation of Alon



Evidence for Intrinsic or Derived Gentile Ritual Impurity: a Refutation



The Ritual Impurity of Idolatry: a Refutation of Alon


Notes


Bibliography


Glossary of Hebrew Terms


Index of Citations


General Index