List Books » Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud
Authors: Christine Elizabeth Hayes
ISBN-13: 9780195151206, ISBN-10: 0195151208
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition
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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1 | Introduction | 3 |
Pt. I | Gentile Impurities in Biblical and Second Temple Sources | |
2 | Gentile Impurity in the Bible | 19 |
3 | The Impurity of Gentiles in Second Temple Sources | 45 |
4 | Impurity, Intermarriage, and Conversion in Second Temple Sources | 68 |
5 | Intermarriage in the Writings of Paul and the Early Church Fathers | 92 |
Pt. II | Gentile Impurities in Rabbinic Sources | |
6 | Gentiles and Ritual Impurity in Rabbinic Sources | 107 |
7 | Gentiles and Moral Impurity: Rabbinic Attitudes to Intermarriage | 145 |
8 | Gentiles and Genealogical Impurity: Converts and Their Offspring in Rabbinic Texts | 164 |
9 | Conclusion | 193 |
App. A | The Impurity of Gentile Lands and Houses: A Refutation of Alon | 199 |
App. B | Evidence for Intrinsic or Derived Gentile Ritual Impurity: A Refutation | 205 |
App. C | The Ritual Impurity of Idolatry: A Refutation of Alon | 215 |
Notes | 223 | |
Bibliography | 285 | |
Glossary of Hebrew Terms | 293 | |
Index of Citations | 295 | |
General Index | 305 |