Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities

Description:

This text explores the diverse views of Gentile impurity found in Second Temple and rabbinic sources. Christine Hayes seeks to to determine the role such views played in the rise and development of sectarianism within late antique society and in the regulation of Jewish-Gentile interactions.

subjects: Purity, ritual,  Interfaith marriage,  Judaism, history, post-exilic period, 586 b.c.-210 a.d.,  Judaism, history, talmudic period, 10-425,  Gentiles in the Old Testament,  Gentiles in rabbinical literature,  Ritual Purity,  Judaism,  History of doctrines,  Interfaith marriage (Jewish law),  Conversion,  History,  Purity (Ethics)