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The Stranger within Your Gates: Converts and Conversion in Rabbinic Literature - Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism Gary G. Porton 1st edition
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The Stranger within Your Gates: Converts and Conversion in Rabbinic Literature - Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism
Gary G. Porton
Analyzes references to converts to the Rabbinic faith in the corpus of Rabbinic literature. The intellectual dilemma in discussions of marriage, religious practice and inheritance of property are explored,along with the nature of the people of Israel as portrayed in Rabbinic literature.
424 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 1, 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226675862 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 424 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 737 g |
| Language | English |