Transforming identity : the ritual transition from gentile to Jew - structure and meaning / / by Avi Sagi and Zvi Zohar
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| Autore: |
Sagi Abraham
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| Titolo: |
Transforming identity : the ritual transition from gentile to Jew - structure and meaning / / by Avi Sagi and Zvi Zohar
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2009 |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 296.7/14 |
| Soggetto topico: | Conversion - Judaism |
| Jewish converts | |
| Rabbinical literature - History and criticism | |
| Jewish law | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | ZoharTsevi |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-306) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: The proselyte''s motivation as a factor in giyyur; Introduction; 1 The proselyte''s motivation in Talmudic sources; 2 The proselyte''s motivation in post-Talmudic sources up to the sixteenth century; 3 The motivation for giyyur in modern halakhic sources: adaptivist positions; 4 The motivation for giyyur in modem halakhic sources: rejectionist and transformationist positions; Part II: The giyyur ritual; Introduction; 5 Giyyur as a voluntaristic normative commitment in Talmudic literature; 6 Giyyur as a bodily ritual in Talmudic literature |
| 7 The canonical formulation of the ritual of giyyur8 The Yevamot paradigm in mediaeval halakhah; 9 The ritual of giyyur: aspects of the Demai Paradigm in mediaeval halakhah; 10 The two paradigms of giyyur - from the Arba''ah Turim to the Shulhan Arukh; 11 The hermeneutical controversy regarding Rabbi Caro''s position - and its significance; Part III: The polyphonic meaning of acceptance of the commandments in halakhic literature; Introduction; 12 Acceptance of the commandments as an objective act; 13 Acceptance of the commandments as subjective intent; 14 Ex post facto annulment of giyyur | |
| Part IV: The meaning of giyyurIntroduction; 15 Giyyur and Jewish identity; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transforming identity |
| ISBN: | 1-4411-0128-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809021603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Kogod library of Judaic studies ; ; 3.