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1 online resource |
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Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions |
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Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
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| Contents |
Cover; Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; A Surprising Lacuna; Strategy and Methodology; Discourse; Typology; Genealogy; Our Corpus and the Plan of this Book; 1. Nokhri, Ger, and the Art of Separationin the Hebrew Bible; Strangers; The Unrecognized Stranger; Priestly Strangers, Residents, and Natives; The Deuteronomic Foreigner; The Triadic Logic of Separation; Narratives of Violence and Separation: From the Patriarchs to Sinai; God and His Others in the Deuteronomistic Works |
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Goy and Other Legal CategoriesThe Midrashic Goy; The Triangular Structure; Conversing with Goyim: Six Anecdotes; The Division of Laborbetween Halakhah and Aggadah; 8. Gentiles Are Not Barbarians; The Barbarian Repertoire; Ioudaioi as Barbarians; Postscript; Bibliography; Index of Sources; General Index |
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PhiloJosephus; Diasporism; The Temple Inscription; 5. Paul and the Non-Ethnic Ethnē; The Proliferation of Ethnē; Why does paul need the individualized, generic gentile?; Political Theology; The Disappearance of Gentiles in Earlychristianity; 6. The Formation of the Binary Structurein Early Rabbinic Literature; The Erasure of the in-Betweens; Gerim; Samaritans; Apostates (meshumadim) and Heretics (minim); Noahides and God-Fearers; Generating a Polarized World; The Limits of Rabbinic Eschatology; Toward a New Paradigm; 7. One Goy, Multiple Language Games; Goyim in Halakhic Discourse |
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The Separation of the Holy in Priestly Sources2. Fragile Particularism, Virtual Universalism; Ezra-Nehemiah; Foreign Wives and Alien Priests-the Biopolitics of Separation; Fragile Identity and Multiple Others; Separation Performed, Identities Formed; Prophetic Eschatologies; 3. The Missing Goy in SecondTemple Literature; Chauvinism and Plurality; Flexible Election; Marriage, Family, Tribe, and Nation; The Dialectic of Openness and Seclusion; Enemies and Other Nations; 4. Nations and Goyim, Hellēnes and Others; Individuation and Generalization; Between Ethnos and Politeia:Philo and Josephus |
| Summary |
This work traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Gentiles in rabbinical literature
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Gentiles in the Bible
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rosen-Zvi, Ishay
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| ISBN |
0191062340 (electronic bk.) |
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0191806013 |
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9780191062346 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191806018 |
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