Transforming Identity: The Ritual Tranformation from Gentile to Jew -Structure and Meaning: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and ... Kogod Library of Judaic Studies, 3, Band 3) - Softcover

Sagi, Avi

 
9780826496720: Transforming Identity: The Ritual Tranformation from Gentile to Jew -Structure and Meaning: The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and ... Kogod Library of Judaic Studies, 3, Band 3)
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ISBN 10: 0826496725 ISBN 13: 9780826496720
Verlag: Continuum, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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 as an a

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy, and Founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel. He has written and edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general philosophy, among them Religion and Morality (with Daniel Statman, New York: 1995) and the recently released Judaism: Between Religion and Morality (Tel Aviv: 1998) and Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (New York: 2002).

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Continuum
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
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Englisch
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0826496725
ISBN 13 
9780826496720
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