The rabbinic conversion of Judaism : the unique perspective of the Bavli on conversion and the construction of Jewish identity /

The rabbinic conversion of Judaism : the unique perspective of the Bavli on conversion and the construction of Jewish identity /

In this volume, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, and shows how the Babylonian Talmud dramatically challenged and extended the rabbinic model of conversion to Judaism. The history of conversion to Judaism has long fascinated Jews along a broad ide...

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Main Author: Lavie-Levkovitch, Moshe.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 99.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

Subjects:

Talmud > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conversion > Judaism.
Jewish converts.

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Call Number: BM729.P7

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Methods and Models
  • "Like an Israelite in Every Respect": The Conversion Procedure
  • The Babylonian "Mini-Tractate" of Conversion
  • The Invention of the Conversion Court
  • Immersion and Circumcision
  • Sinai as Conversion: Acceptance of the Commandments
  • "Like a Scab": Negative Attitudes toward Converts and Conversion
  • "Like a Scab": A Babylonian Expression
  • Converting Missionary Images
  • Hillel and Shammai Revisited
  • "Like a Newborn": The Erasure of the Convert's Past
  • Newborn: Conversion and the Severing of Kinship
  • Newborn: From Forgiveness of Sins to a New Personality
  • Contextualizing the Talmud "Against its Will"
  • Dominantization: The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism
  • Legalization, Rabbinization and the Shift of Authority
  • Genealogical Anxiety and the Body: The Iranian Context
  • Conclusion-A Newborn, an Israelite, a Scab: The Babylonian Convert.