Matthew Thiessen

Contesting Conversion

Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced study of the nature of Jewish thought regarding Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Focusing on texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the varieties of Judaism from which the Christian movement arose.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780190912703
• ISBN-10: 0190912707
• Artikelnr.: 51971865

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Genealogy and Circumcision in the Hebrew Bible
Chapter 1: Ishmael, Isaac, and Covenantal Circumcision in Genesis 17
Chapter 2: Uncircumcised and Circumcised Gentiles in the Hebrew Bible
Part II: Genealogy and Circumcision in Early Judaism and Christianity
Chapter 3: Eighth-Day Circumcision in Jubilees
Chapter 4: Jewishness as Genealogy in the Late Second Temple Period
Chapter 5: Jews, Gentiles, and Circumcision in Early Christianity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography