The Beginnings Of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties

Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish identity during the period, the question of conversion, the prohibition of intermarriage, matrilineal descent, and the place of the convert in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds.

• | By (Author): Shaye J. D. Cohen
• | Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 17, 2001
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 458 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780520226937