ISBN:
9789004352056
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 321 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity volume 99
Series Statement:
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online
Series Statement:
Collection 2017
Series Statement:
Brill online books and journals: E-books
Series Statement:
Ancient Judaism and early Christianity
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lavi-Levḳovits, Mosheh The Rabbinic conversion of Judaism
Keywords:
Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Talmud Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Conversion Judaism
;
Jewish converts
;
Conversion Judaism
;
Jewish converts
;
Conversion Judaism
;
Bekehrung
;
Judentum
;
Konversion
;
Konvertierung
;
Bekehrung
;
Judentum
;
Konversion
;
Konvertierung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 ideological continuum. This book demonstrates the rabbis in Babylonia further reworked former traditions about conversion in ever more stringent direction, shifting the focus of identity demarcation towards genealogy and bodily perspectives. By applying a reading-strategy that emphasizes late Babylonian literary developments, Lavee sheds critical light on a broader discourse regarding the nature and boundaries of Jewish identity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Lavie-Levkovitch, Moshe
DOI:
10.1163/9789004352056
