The Stranger Within Your Gates: Converts And Conversion In Rabbinic Literature
by Porton /
1994 / English / PDF
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If the people of Israel understood themselves to share a common ancestry as well as a common religion, how could a convert to their faith who did not share their ethnicity fit into the ancient Israelite community? While it is comparatively simple to declare religious beliefs, it is much more difficult to enter a group whose membership is defined in ethnic terms.
