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Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume describes the attitudes towards Gentiles in both ancient Judaism and the early Christian tradition. The Jewish relationship with and views about the Gentiles played an important part in Jewish self-definition, especially in the Diaspora where Jews formed the minority among larger Gentile populations. Jewish attitudes can be found in the writings of prominent Jewish authors (Josephus...

attention will be paid to these. Ancient Judaism was not a static religious tradition, and the subject of Gentiles, God-fearers and proselytes well demonstrates just how flexible and innovative this tradition was in the later Second Temple period and the centuries beyond. In the period between the conquest/settlement (however this process is perceived) and the Exile, Israel was a tribal society with each tribal
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