%0 Book
%T rabbinic conversion of Judaism: the unique perspective of the Bavli on conversion and the construction of Jewish identity
%A Lavi-Levḳovits, Mosheh
%S Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online Collection 2017
%D 2018
%I Brill
%C Leiden
%@ 9789004352056
%G English
%F 1011187590
%O by Moshe Lavee
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%O Lavie-Levkovitch, Moshe
%X Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Methods and Models -- “Like an Israelite in Every Respect”: The Conversion Procedure -- The Babylonian “Mini-Tractate” of Conversion -- The Invention of the Conversion Court -- Immersion and Circumcision -- Sinai as Conversion: Acceptance of the Commandments -- “Like a Scab”: Negative Attitudes toward Converts and Conversion -- “Like a Scab”: A Babylonian Expression -- Converting Missionary Images -- Hillel and Shammai Revisited -- “Like a Newborn”: The Erasure of the Convert’s Past -- Newborn: Conversion and the Severing of Kinship -- Newborn: From Forgiveness of Sins to a New Personality -- Contextualizing the Talmud “Against its Will” -- Dominantization: The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism -- Legalization, Rabbinization and the Shift of Authority -- Genealogical Anxiety and the Body: The Iranian Context -- Conclusion—A Newborn, an Israelite, a Scab: The Babylonian Convert.
%L 1 0
%K Criticism, interpretation, etc
%K Conversion
%K Judaism
%K Jewish converts
%K Bekehrung
%K Judentum
%K Konversion
%K Konvertierung
%9 Text
%R 10.1163/9789004352056
%U http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004352056
%U https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz496502360inh.htm
%U https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz496502360kla.htm
%U https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004352056