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221.08*4 --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- 221.08*4 Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus

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22108*4 --- GGSB: Exegese OT. --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus.

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Purity, Ritual --- Judaism. --- 221.08*4 --- Immersion (Judaism) --- Purity, Ritual (Judaism) --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- 221.08*4 Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- Judaism --- Purity, Ritual - Judaism.

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The ancient institution of the Sabbath which has persisted throughout the centuries and to this very day defines the identity, religious and cultural practices of the Jewish community. This study aims to offer a more accurate description of the literary and redaction history of the Sabbath commandments in the Bible from the perspective of the inner-biblical interpretation, and to understand the theological and intellectual endeavour of scribes, who were responsible for the different redactional layers. Hence, the Sabbath commandments are presented against the time span of 'exile and return' spread over the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods. In the final part, the Sabbath is discussed as identity marker: How did it function as identity marker, self-understanding and self-definition of the exiled Judean group? What was the role of the Sabbath day in the identity building strategies of the biblical authors in general? How is this perception reflected by the Sabbath commandments?

263 --- 221.08*4 --- 263 Zondag. Sabbat. Dag des Heren --- Zondag. Sabbat. Dag des Heren --- 221.08*4 Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus

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Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought on Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity, he gives a compelling account of the various forms of Judaism from which the early Christian movement arose.Beginning with analysis of the Hebrew Bible, Thiessen argues that there is no evidence that circumcision was considered to be a rite of conversion to Israelite religion. In fact, circumcision, particularly the infant circumcision practiced within Israelite and early Jewish society, excluded from the covenant those not properly descended from Abraham. In the Second Temple period, many Jews began to subscribe to a definition of Jewishness that enabled Gentiles to become Jews. Other Jews, such as the author of Jubilees, found this definition problematic, reasserting a strictly genealogical conception of Jewish identity. As a result, some Gentiles who underwent conversion to Judaism in this period faced criticism because of their suspect genealogy.Thiessen's examination of the way in which Jews in the Second Temple period perceived circumcision and conversion allows a deeper understanding of early Christianity. Contesting Conversion shows that careful attention to a definition of Jewishness that was based on genealogical descent has crucial implications for understanding the variegated nature of early Christian mission to the Gentiles in the first century C.E.

221.08*4 --- 221.08*4 Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: cultus --- Jews - Identity. --- Gentiles. --- Conversion - Judaism --- Circumcision - Biblical teaching. --- Berit milah. --- Circumcision - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Jews --- Conversion --- Circumcision