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9780520226937

The Beginnings of Jewishness

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520226937

  • ISBN10:

    0520226933

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-01-01
  • Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

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This is a study of the notion of Jewishness from c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE. Reasonable and well-informed people disputed whether a given person was Jewish or not; Cohen opens by discussing just such an argument, about Herod the Great.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
A Note on God and Parentheses xv
Prologue: Jews and Others 1(10)
PART I: WHO WAS A JEW? 11(96)
Was Herod Jewish?
13(12)
``Those Who Say They Are Jews and Are Not'': How Do You Know a Jew in Antiquity When You See One?
25(44)
Ioudaios, Iudaeus, Judaean, Jew
69(38)
PART II: THE BOUNDARY CROSSED: BECOMING A JEW 107(132)
From Ethnos to Ethno-religion
109(31)
Crossing the Boundary and Becoming a Jew
140(35)
Ioudaizein, ``to Judaize''
175(23)
The Rabbinic Conversion Ceremony
198(41)
PART III: THE BOUNDARY VIOLATED: THE UNION OF DIVERSE KINDS 239(102)
The Prohibition of Intermarriage
241(22)
The Matrilineal Principle
263(45)
Israelite Mothers, Israelite Fathers: Matrilineal Descent and the Inequality of the Convert
308(33)
Epilogue: Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness: Us and Them 341(10)
Appendix A: Was Martial's Slave Jewish? 351(7)
Appendix B: Was Menophilus Jewish? 358(2)
Appendix C: Was Trophimus Jewish? 360(3)
Appendix D: Was Timothy Jewish? 363(16)
Glossary of Some Hebrew Terms 379(2)
Bibliography and Abbreviations 381(12)
General Index 393(18)
Index of Premodern Sources 411(8)
Index of Modern Scholars 419

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