The Beginnings of Jewishness (1999 Cohen), book

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The Beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties (1999) is a book by Shaye J.D. Cohen.

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Published in Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.

Table of contents

  • A Note on God and Parentheses
  • Prologue: Jews and Others
  • Part 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. Ioudaious, Iudaeus, Judaean, Jew
  • Part 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
  • Part 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 Covenant
  • Epilogue: Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness: Us and Them
  • Appendix A: Was Martial's Slave Jewish?
  • Appendix B: Was Menophilus Jewish?
  • Appendix C: Was Trophimus Jewish?
  • Appendix D: Was Timothy Jewish?

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