Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish identity during the period, the question of conversion, the prohibition of intermarriage, matrilineal descent, and the place of the convert in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds.


Format Häftad Omfång 458 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag University of California Press Utgivningsdatum 2001-01-17 ISBN 9780520226937