Transforming Identity The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning |
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| Author:
| Sagi, Avi
Zohar, Zvi |
| Series title: | The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8264-9671-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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| Imprint: | Continuum |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $230.00 |
Book Description:
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Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew - once and for all and irrevocably. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an ascriptive status entered through birth to a Jewish mother. This book provides a close reading of primary halakhic texts as a key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic tradition.
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Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew - once and for all and irrevocably. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an ascriptive status entered through birth to a Jewish mother. This book provides a close reading of primary halakhic texts as a key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic tradition.
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