Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity

ISBN-13: 9780190912703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 258 str.

Matthew Thiessen

Opis

Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced study of the nature of Jewish thought regarding Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Focusing on texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the varieties of Judaism from which the Christian movement arose.

O autorze

Matthew Thiessen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University and the author of Paul and the Gentile Problem (OUP 2016).