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Gary G. Porton

The Stranger within Your Gates

Converts and Conversion in Rabbinic Literature

424 pages,  6 x 9  © 1994
Series: Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism

Cloth $42.50

ISBN: 9780226675862   Published November 1994

Preface
Abbreviations
Transliterations
1: Problem and Method
2: Converts and Conversion in Mishnah
3: Converts and Conversion in Tosefta
4: Converts and Conversion in the Early Midrashic Texts
5: Converts and Conversion in the Palestinian Talmud
6: Converts and Conversion in the Babylonian Talmud
7: The Conversion Ritual
8: Marriages between Converts and Israelites
9: Converts as Newborn Children
10: Converts and the Israelite Way of Life
11: The Stranger within Your Gates
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Biblical Citations
Index of Rabbinic Literature Citations
Index of Rabbis
Index of Scholars
Index of Topics
Subjects



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