Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities - Intermarriage and Conversion From the Bible to the Talmud

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This text 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.

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• Authors: Christine Hayes, Christine E. Hayes, Christine E. (Associate Professor of Classi Hayes, Christine Elizabeth Hayes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2002
• EAN: 9780195151206
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515120-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, History of Religion, Judaism, Interfaith relations