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University of Chicago Press The Stranger within your Gates: Converts and Conversion in Rabbinic Literature (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)

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If the people of Israel understood themselves to share a common ancestry as well as a common religion, how could a convert to their faith who did not share their ethnicity fit into the ancient Israelite community? While it is comparatively simple to declare religious beliefs, it is much more difficult to enter a group whose membership is defined in ethnic terms. In showing how the rabbis struggled continually with the dual nature of the Israelite community and the dilemma posed by converts, Gary G. Porton explains aspects of their debates. This text analyzes references to converts in the full corpus of rabbinic literature. The intellectual dilemma in discussions of marriage, religious practice, inheritance of property and much else are explored here. Reviewing the rabbinic literature text by text, Porton exposes the rabbis' frequently ambivalent and ambiguous views. The text focuses upon the opinions of the community into which the convert enters, rather than on the testimony of the convert. By approaching data with various methods, Porton aims to increase the reader's understanding of conversion and the nature of the people of Israel in rabbinic literature.

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Brand: University of Chicago Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0226675866
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 August 1994
Listed Since: 07 February 2007

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