The beginnings of Jewishness : boundaries, varieties, uncertainties / Shaye J.D. Cohen.
Cohen, Shaye J. D.
1999
BM176 .C614 1999 (Mapit)
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Title The beginnings of Jewishness : boundaries, varieties, uncertainties / Shaye J.D. Cohen.
Author Cohen, Shaye J. D.
ISBN 9780520226937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520226933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520211413 (alk. paper)
9780520211414 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Language English
Description xiii, 426 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BM176 .C614 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 296/.09/014
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliography (p. 381-392) and indexes.
Series Hellenistic culture and society ; 31
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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pt. 1. Who was a Jew?
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"Those who say they are Jews and are not": How do you know a Jew in antiquity when you see one?
Ioudaios, Iudaeus, Judaean, Jew
pt. 2. The boundary crossed: becoming a Jew
From ethnos to ethno-religion
Crossing the boundary and becoming a Jew
Ioudaïzein, "to Judaize"
The rabbinic conversion ceremony
pt. 3. The boundary violated: the union of diverse kinds
The prohibition of intermarriage
The matrilineal principle
Israelite mothers, Israelite fathers: matrilineal descent and the inequality of the concert
Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness: us and them
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Was Menophilus Jewish?
Was Trophimus Jewish?
Was Timothy Jewish?

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