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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: rabbinic conversion of Judaism
    sub title: the unique perspective of the Bavli on conversion and the construction of Jewish identity
  name:
    name part: Lavie-Levkovitch, Moshe
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 321 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "In 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 that the rabbis in Babylonia further reworked former traditions about conversion in an 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.
  table of contents: 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 -- Hillel and shammai : comparison charts -- "Like a newborn" : the erasure of the convert's past -- Newborn : conversion and the severing of kinship -- The severing of maternal relations in palestinian sources -- A palestinian concept in a geonic text? -- 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 -- The conversion mini-tractate : annotated texts -- The preceding narrative -- The first baraita : the requirement for both immersion and circumcision -- The second baraita : the case of circumcision without immersion -- The third baraita : witnessed conversion -- The fourth baraita : the conversion court -- The fifth baraita : the procedure of conversion -- The sixth baraita : a theological reflection on the suffering of converts -- The meimrot of Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba in the name of Rabbi Yohanan -- Conversion at night and the conversion court -- Bibliography -- Index of sources -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.
  note: by Moshe Lavee.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-303) and indexes.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Talmud
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Judaism
  subject:
    topic: Jewish converts
  classification: BM729.P7 L382 2018
  classification: 296.7/1409
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity ; v. 99
  identifier: 9789004317338
  identifier: 9004317333
  identifier: 2017029860
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170620
    record change date: 20180718085909.0
    record identifier: in00004021410