Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity. By Matthew Thiessen
Matthew Thiessen’s revised dissertation from Duke University makes a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of ancient Jewish views of the functions and possibilities of circumcision. The work offers necessarily more than an enlarged understanding of bodily practice, but—as Thiessen...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 617-620 |
| Review of: | Contesting conversion (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2011) (Marshall, John)
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| Summary: | Matthew Thiessen’s revised dissertation from Duke University makes a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of ancient Jewish views of the functions and possibilities of circumcision. The work offers necessarily more than an enlarged understanding of bodily practice, but—as Thiessen’s subtitle indicates—provides a way to query the transformations of social and religious formations and the possibilities of individuals’ movement among those formations., After economically introducing a variety of scholarly understandings of the possibility of Gentiles becoming Israelites or Jews, Thiessen outlines his work and lays out the road ahead. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt140 |