Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning by Avi Sagi, Zvi Zohar

Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning

Avi Sagi, Zvi Zohar

311 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging reflective medium-paced
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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. The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness...

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