Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities
Subtitle: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 19, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780195151206
First sentence: Any discussion of the texts and ideas of ancient Judaism must begin with the texts and ideas of the Hebrew Bible.
Description: This text explores the diverse views of Gentile impurity found in Second Temple and rabbinic sources. Christine Hayes seeks to to determine the role such views played in the rise and development of sectarianism within late antique society and in the regulation of Jewish-Gentile interactions.