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Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought on Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the various forms of Judaism from which the early Christian movement arose.Beginning with analysis of the Hebrew Bible, Thiessen argues that there is no evidence that circumcision was considered to be a rite of conversion to Israelite religion. In fact, circumcision, particularly the infant circumcision practiced within Israelite and early Jewish society, excluded from the covenant those not properly descended from Abraham. In the Second Temple period, many Jews began to subscribe to a definition of Jewishness that enabled Gentiles to become Jews. Other Jews, such as the author of Jubilees, found this definition problematic, reasserting a strictly genealogical conception of Jewish identity. As a result, some Gentiles who underwent conversion to Judaism in this period faced criticism because of their suspect genealogy.Thiessen's examination of the way in which Jews in the Second Temple period perceived circumcision and conversion allows a deeper understanding of early Christianity. Contesting Conversion shows that careful attention to a definition of Jewishness that was based on genealogical descent has crucial implications for understanding the variegated nature of early Christian mission to the Gentiles in the first century C.E.

221.08*4 --- 221.08*4 Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- Jews - Identity. --- Gentiles. --- Conversion - Judaism --- Circumcision - Biblical teaching. --- Berit milah. --- Circumcision - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Jews --- Conversion --- Circumcision

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Using Ricoeur’s theories of narrative and identity, and their ethical implications, this book offers a multi-disciplinary Asian reading of Moses’ reverse migration in Exodus 4:18-26, in light of the liminal experience of global economic migration. The work demonstrates the productivity of Ricoeur’s threefold movement of prefiguration, configuration, and refiguration for OT studies and contemporary realities. By bringing together the world of an ancient text, a nuanced reading of the text’s narrative movement and its history of interpretation, and the bittersweet realities of Filipino overseas workers, this creative study charts the way for an OT hermeneutic that opens up possibilities for the formation of a reader’s narrative and ethical identity.

Circumcision --- Ethics in the Bible. --- Narration in the Bible. --- Biblical teaching. --- Ricœur, Paul, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 222.3 --- Exodus. Leviticus. Numeri --- Ethics in the Bible --- Narration in the Bible --- Biblical ethics --- Ethics --- Amputation, Foreskin --- Foreskin amputation --- Foreskin removal --- Male circumcision --- Prepucectomy --- Removal of foreskin --- Body marking --- Foreskin --- Initiation rites --- Biblical teaching --- Surgery --- Ricœur, Paul. --- Ricœur, P. --- Ricœur, Paul --- Lü-ko-erh --- Li-kʻo, Pao-lo --- ريكور، بول --- ريكور، پول --- Рикёр, Поль --- Rikër, Polʹ --- Ricœur, Jean Paul Gustave --- Circumcision - Biblical teaching. --- Ricœur, Paul, - 1913-2005 --- Ricur, Paul.