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OverviewIn this volume, Moshe Lavee offers an account of crucial internal developments in the rabbinic corpus, and shows how the Babylonian Talmud dramatically challenged and extended the rabbinic model of conversion to Judaism. The history of conversion to Judaism has long fascinated Jews along a broad ideological continuum. This book demonstrates the rabbis in Babylonia further reworked former traditions about conversion in ever more stringent direction, shifting the focus of identity demarcation towards genealogy and bodily perspectives. By applying a reading-strategy that emphasizes late Babylonian literary developments, Lavee sheds critical light on a broader discourse regarding the nature and boundaries of Jewish identity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Moshe LaveePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 99 Weight: 0.654kg ISBN: 9789004317338ISBN 10: 9004317333 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 01 December 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Methods and Models Part 1: “Like an Israelite in Every Respect”: The Conversion Procedure 1 The Babylonian “Mini-Tractate” of Conversion 2 The Invention of the Conversion Court 3 Immersion and Circumcision 4 Sinai as Conversion: Acceptance of the Commandments Part 2: “Like a Scab”: Negative Attitudes toward Converts and Conversion 5 “Like a Scab”: A Babylonian Expression 6 Converting Missionary Images 7 Hillel and Shammai Revisited Appendix 7.1 Hillel and Shammai: Comparison Charts Part 3: “Like a Newborn”: The Erasure of the Convert’s Past 8 Newborn: Conversion and the Severing of Kinship Appendix 8.1 The Severing of Maternal Relations in Palestinian Sources Appendix 8.2 A Palestinian Concept in a Geonic Text? 9 Newborn: From Forgiveness of Sins to a New Personality Part 4: Contextualizing the Talmud “Against its Will” 10 Dominantization: The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism 11 Legalization, Rabbinization and the Shift of Authority 12 Genealogical Anxiety and the Body: The Iranian Context Conclusion—A Newborn, an Israelite, a Scab: The Babylonian Convert Appendix—The Conversion Mini-Tractate: Annotated Texts 1 The Preceding Narrative 2 The first Baraita: The Requirement for Both Immersion and Circumcision 3 The Second Baraita: The Case of Circumcision without Immersion 4 The Third Baraita: Witnessed Conversion 5 The Fourth Baraita: the Conversion Court 6 The Fifth Baraita: The Procedure of Conversion 7 The Sixth Baraita: A Theological Reflection on the Suffering of Converts 8 The Meimrot of Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba in the name of Rabbi Yohanan 9 Conversion at Night and the Conversion Court Bibliography IndexReviewsNo one to my knowledge has unpacked as clearly or as convincingly the Bavli’s integrated and interlocking ideas about converts and conversion to Judaism as well as explaining how it created the impression that its new ideas really were not new. This is for this reason an important work about conversion to Judaism in late antiquity and an equally important example of the best of contemporary scholarship on the Babylonian Talmud. Gary G. Porton, University of Illinois, Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2018 No one to my knowledge has unpacked as clearly or as convincingly the Bavli's integrated and interlocking ideas about converts and conversion to Judaism as well as explaining how it created the impression that its new ideas really were not new. This is for this reason an important work about conversion to Judaism in late antiquity and an equally important example of the best of contemporary scholarship on the Babylonian Talmud. Gary G. Porton, University of Illinois, Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2018 Author InformationMoshe Lavee, is a lecturer of Rabbinic Literature and chair of the Cairo Genizah center and Digital Humanities program at the University of Haifa. He has published various articles on identity, conversion and gender in rabbinic literature as well as the reception of aggadic midrash as reflected in the Cairo Genizah. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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