Contents
| Abbreviations | xi | |
| Transliteration System | xiii | |
| 1. | Introduction | 3 |
| The Impurities of Gentiles — Schürer, Büchler, Alon, and Klawans | 4 | |
| Identity and Group Boundaries | 7 | |
| Genealogical Purity and the Problem of Conversion | 8 | |
| Outline of the Book | 12 | |
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PART I: GENTILE IMPURITIES IN BIBLICAL AND SECOND TEMPLE SOURCES | ||
| 2. | Gentile Impurity in the Bible | 19 |
| Gentiles and the Three Modes of Impurity | 19 | |
| Related Issues | 34 | |
| 3. | The Impurity of Gentiles in Second Temple Sources | 45 |
| Gentiles and Ritual Impurity — Weighing the Evidence | 47 | |
| Gentiles and Moral Impurity | 54 | |
| Gentiles and Genealogical Impurity | 58 | |
| Temple Access | 59 | |
| A Principle of Gentile Ritual Impurity? The Essenes and the Evidence from Qumran | 63 | |
| Summary and Conclusions | 66 | |
| 4. | Impurity, Intermarriage, and Conversion in Second Temple Sources | 68 |
| Intermarriage in Second Temple Sources | 70 | |
| Jubilees and Intermarriage | 73 | |
| 4QMMT and Intermarriage | 82 | |
| Summary and Conclusions | 89 | |
| 5. | Intermarriage in the Writings of Paul and the Early Church Fathers | 92 |
| Paul on Mixed Marriages | 92 | |
| Mixed Marriages in Patristic Writings | 98 | |
| Summary and Conclusions | 102 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud.
Contributors: Christine E. Hayes - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: ix.
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