附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-392) and indexes.
pt. I. Who was a Jew? -- 1. Was Herod Jewish? -- 2. "Those Who Say They Are Jews and Are Not": How Do You Know a Jew in Antiquity When You See One? -- 3. Ioudaios, Iudaeus, Judaean, Jew -- pt. II. The Boundary Crossed: Becoming a Jew -- 4. From Ethnos to Ethno-religion -- 5. Crossing the Boundary and Becoming a Jew -- 6. Ioudaizein, "to Judaize" -- 7. The Rabbinic Conversion Ceremony -- pt. III. The Boundary Violated: The Union of Diverse Kinds -- 8. The Prohibition of Intermarriage -- 9. The Matrilineal Principle -- 10. Israelite Mothers, Israelite Fathers: Matrilineal Descent and the Inequality of the Convert -- Epilogue: Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness: Us and them -- App. A. Was Martial's Slave Jewish? -- App. B. Was Menophilus Jewish? -- App. C. Was Trophimus Jewish? -- App. D. Was Timothy Jewish?
摘要:In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity (membership in a descent group, a function of birth), nationality (citizenship in a state, a function of politics), religion (membership in a group characterized by various beliefs and practices), or all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity; the peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize Jewishness through the centuries first took shape in the second century B.C.E. , This book studies the ways in which these elements were understood and applied in the construction of Jewish identity - by Jews, by gentiles and by the state - in such a way that the question "Who was a Jew?" could be variously answered.
