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Transforming Identity - The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning (Paperback)
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Transforming Identity - The Ritual Transition from Gentile to Jew - Structure and Meaning (Paperback)
Series: The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies
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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 as an ascriptive
status entered through birth to a Jewish mother.What is the
internal logic of the ritual of giyyur, that seems to enable a
Gentile to acquire an ascribed identity? It is to this question,
and others deriving from it, that the authors address
themselves.Interpretation of a ritual such as giyyur is linked to
broad issues of anthropology, religion and culture: the relation of
nature and culture in the construction of group boundaries; the
tension between ethnicity and religion; the interrelation of
individual identity and membership in a collective. Fully aware of
these issues, this groundbreaking study focuses upon a close
reading of primary halakhic texts from Talmudic times down to the
present as key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic
tradition.In our times, the meaning of Jewish identity is a core
issue, directly affecting the public debate regarding the relative
weight of religion, nationality and kinship in determining basic
aspects of Jewish life throughout the world. This book constitutes
a seminal contribution to this ongoing discussion: it enables
access to a wealth of halakhic sources previously accessible only
to rabbinic scholars, fleshes out their meanings and implications
within the cultural history of halakha, and in doing so situates
halakha at the nexus of contemporary cultural discourse.
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