Conflicting Attitudes to Conversion in Judaism, Past and Present
This book is for people puzzled by the contradictory evaluations of conversion; in particular for non-experts in what is a rather recondite field. To some ancients, Jewishness was ethnic and therefore unreceptive to converts. The Rabbis embraced conversion in principle, but did not disavow the ethnic idea. This book tries to confront and unravel the resultant paradoxes and irresolution.
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