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Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning - The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies
Avi Sagi
Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning - The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies
Avi Sagi
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. This title focuses upon a reading of primary halakhic texts from Talmudic times onwards as key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic tradition.
320 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 29, 2008 |
Original release date | 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780826496713 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 162 × 237 × 28 mm · 589 g |
Language | English |