TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ofir, ʿAdi
AU  - Rozen-Tsevi, Yishai
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Goy: Israel's multiple others and the birth of the gentile
T3  - Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
ET  - First edition
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
KW  - Gentiles in the Bible
KW  - Gentiles in rabbinical literature
AB  - This volumes traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became the centre of a stable and long standing structure that involved God, the Halakha, history, and salvation. The authors narrate this development through chronological analyses of the various biblical and post biblical texts (including the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament and early patristics, the Mishnah, and rabbinic Midrash) and synchronic analyses of several discursive structures
SN  - 9780191806018
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744900.001.0001
DO  - 10.1093/oso/9780198744900.001.0001
LA  - English
N1  - Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi
ID  - 1051408911
ER  -