UID:
almahu_9948206433502882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780191806018 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
Content:
This volumes traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became the centre of a stable and long standing structure that involved God, the Halakha, history, and salvation. The authors narrate this development through chronological analyses of the various biblical and post biblical texts (including the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament and early patristics, the Mishnah, and rabbinic Midrash) and synchronic analyses of several discursive structures.
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780198744900
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
