Availability:In StockContributor:Miriam BodianSeries:Key Words in Jewish StudiesPublish date:11/11/2025Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978834989ISBN-10:1978834985UPC:9781978834989Book Category:Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Judaism, Jewish StudiesBook Topic:Rituals & PracticeSize:8.60 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCSCZJD2N7
Conversion
In Conversion, Miriam Bodian considers the now-universalized term "conversion" in a Jewish context as broadly as possible, as an act of socioreligious boundary crossing. It charts how, across the long arc of Jewish history from biblical times to the present, patterns of boundary crossing have developed and shifted, whether of Gentiles entering Jewish life or of Jews exiting from it. It analyzes...
Series: Key Words in Jewish Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9781978834989ISBN-10:1978834985UPC:9781978834989Book Category:Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Judaism, Jewish StudiesBook Topic:Rituals & PracticeSize:8.60 x 5.80 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCSCZJD2N7
MIRIAM BODIAN is professor of history emerita at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam and Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World.
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