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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
Author: Christine Elizabeth Hayes
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 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195151206
ISBN-10: 0195151208
Publication Date: 10/19/2002
Pages: 309
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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