TY - BOOK AU - Lavi-Levḳovits, Mosheh PY - 2018 DA - 2018// TI - rabbinic conversion of Judaism: the unique perspective of the Bavli on conversion and the construction of Jewish identity T3 - Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online Collection 2017 PB - Brill CY - Leiden KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Conversion KW - Judaism KW - Jewish converts KW - Bekehrung KW - Judentum KW - Konversion KW - Konvertierung AB - 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. SN - 9789004352056 UR - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004352056 UR - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz496502360inh.htm UR - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz496502360kla.htm UR - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004352056 DO - 10.1163/9789004352056 LA - English N1 - by Moshe Lavee ID - 1011187590 ER -