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

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

Hardcover

JudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 0195151208
ISBN13: 9780195151206
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 14 2002
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Awards: National Jewish Book Award
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 in the second temple period, and in the separation of the early Christian Church from what later became rabbinic Judaism.

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