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One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.--Back cover.

Jews --- Jewish converts. --- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish --- Converts --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Jewish converts --- Identity --- Jews - Identity

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While there have been various studies examining the contents of the evangelistic proclamation in Acts; and various studies examining, from one angle or another, individual persuasive phenomena described in Acts (e.g., the use of the Jewish Scriptures); no individual studies have sought to identify the key persuasive phenomena presented by Luke in this book, or to analyse their impact upon the book’s early audiences. This study identifies four key phenomena – the Jewish Scriptures, witnessed supernatural events, the Christian community and Greco-Roman cultural interaction. By employing a textual analysis of Acts that takes into account both narrative and socio-historical contexts, the impact of these phenomena upon the early audiences of Acts – that is, those people who heard or read the narrative in the first decades after its completion – is determined. The investigation offers some unique and nuanced insights into evangelistic proclamation in Acts; persuasion in Acts, persuasion in the ancient world; each of the persuasive phenomena discussed; evangelistic mission in the early Christian church; and the growth of the early Christian church.

Apologetics --- 226.6 --- 226.6 Actes des apotres --- 226.6 Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- Actes des apotres --- Handelingen der apostelen. Akten van de apostelen --- History --- Bible. --- Acts (Book of the New Testament) --- Acts of the Apostles --- Chongdo haengjŏn --- Sado haengjŏn --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Christianity and other religions --- Evangelistic work --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Proselytizing --- Acts. --- Apostelgeschichte. --- Argumentation. --- Evangelism. --- Missionierung. --- Persuasion. --- RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament. --- Greek. --- Biblical teaching. --- To 1500. --- Judaism. --- New Testament. --- עידוד להמרת דת --- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish --- Jewish converts --- שכנוע (רטוריקה) --- פעילות אוואנגלית --- נצרות ודתות אחרות --- יהדות --- היסטוריה --- השקפת התנ"ך --- יוונית --- הברית החדשה.

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Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

Philosemitism --- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish --- Judaism --- Antisemitism --- Jews --- Philo-Semitism --- Philsemitism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- History. --- Controversial literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Public opinion --- Relations. --- Proselytizing --- Convert making --- Proselyting --- Proselytism --- Proselytization --- Persuasion (Psychology) --- Religion --- Conversion --- Missions --- Against Apion. --- American Jews. --- Ancient history. --- Anti-Judaism. --- Antiochus IV Epiphanes. --- Arnobius. --- Ashkelon. --- Avodah Zarah. --- Babylonia. --- Babylonian captivity. --- Bar Kokhba revolt. --- Ben Sira. --- Bible. --- Book of Esther. --- Canaan. --- Christian mortalism. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Culture of Greece. --- Dead Sea Scrolls. --- Elagabalus. --- Elisha ben Abuyah. --- Epigraphy. --- Essenes. --- Etymology. --- Eupolemus. --- Exegesis. --- Gentile. --- Greek literature. --- Greek mythology. --- Greek name. --- Greeks. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hebrew language. --- Hebrews. --- Hellenistic period. --- Hellenization. --- Hermetica. --- Herod the Great. --- Herodian. --- Herodians. --- Hillel the Elder. --- Hyrcanus II. --- Israelites. --- Japheth. --- Jason of Cyrene. --- Jerusalem Talmud. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish literature. --- Jewish mysticism. --- Jewish name. --- Jewish religious movements. --- Jews. --- Joshua ben Gamla. --- Judah Halevi. --- Judaism. --- Judea (Roman province). --- Kashrut. --- Lactantius. --- Land of Israel. --- Letter of Aristeas. --- Maccabean Revolt. --- Maimonides. --- Mishnah. --- Mithraism. --- Notion (ancient city). --- Oenomaus of Gadara. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Paganism. --- Pharisees. --- Philistia. --- Philo-Semitism. --- Phoenicia. --- Proselyte. --- Ptolemaic Kingdom. --- Ptolemy II Philadelphus. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Government. --- Sadducees. --- Samaritans. --- Saul Lieberman. --- Second Temple. --- Sicarii. --- Sirach. --- Sotah (Talmud). --- Stephanus of Byzantium. --- Suetonius. --- Syrian Jews. --- Talmudic law. --- Temple in Jerusalem. --- The Jewish War. --- Theophilus of Antioch. --- Theophrastus. --- Tiberias. --- Torah. --- Tosefta. --- Yiddish. --- Yishuv.