Contesting conversion
Subtitle: genealogy, circumcision, and identity in ancient Judaism and Christianity
By: Matthew Thiessen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780199793563; 9780199793679
Subjects: Conversion; Judaism; Jews; Christianity; Berit milah; Circumcision; Biblical teaching; Identity; Gentiles
Description: Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced study of the nature of Jewish thought with regard to Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the various forms of Judaism from which the early Christian movement arose.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-228) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ishmael, Isaac, and covenantal circumcision in Genesis 17; title: Uncircumcised and circumcised gentiles in the Hebrew Bible; title: Eighth-day circumcision in Jubilees; title: Jewishness as genealogy in the late Second Temple period; title: Jews, gentiles, and circumcision in early Christianity.