CONTESTING CONVERSION: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity - Brossura

THIESSEN, Matthew

 
9780190912703: CONTESTING CONVERSION: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity
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ISBN 10: 0190912707 ISBN 13: 9780190912703
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2018

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Winner of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise

Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought on Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the various forms of Judaism from which the early Christian movement arose.

Beginning with analysis of the Hebrew Bible, Thiessen argues that there is no evidence that circumcision was considered to be a rite of conversion to Israelite religion. In fact, circumcision, particularly the infant circumcision practiced within Israelite and early Jewish society, excluded from the covenant those not properly descended from Abraham. In the Second Temple period, many Jews began to subscribe to a definition of Jewishness that enabled Gentiles to become Jews. Other Jews, such as the author of Jubilees, found this definition problematic, reasserting a strictly genealogical conception of Jewish identity. As a result, some Gentiles who underwent conversion to Judaism in this period faced criticism because of their suspect genealogy.

Thiessen's examination of the way in which Jews in the Second Temple period perceived circumcision and conversion allows a deeper understanding of early Christianity. Contesting Conversion shows that careful attention to a definition of Jewishness that was based on genealogical descent has crucial implications for understanding the variegated nature of early Christian mission to the Gentiles in the first century C.E.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Matthew Thiessen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University and the author of Paul and the Gentile Problem (OUP 2016).

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Editore
Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0190912707
ISBN 13 
9780190912703
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
258
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9780199793563: Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity

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ISBN 10:  0199793565 ISBN 13:  9780199793563
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2011
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