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Gentiles in Ancient Judaism​

Ophir, Adi and Ishay Rosen-Zvi. Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Sim, David C. and James S. McLaren. Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Feldman, Louis H. Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Donaldson, Terence L. Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE). Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007.

Dickson, John P. Mission-Commitment in Ancient Judaism and in the Pauline Communities. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

Van Houten, Christiana. The Alien in Israelite Law: A Study of the Changing Legal Status of Strangers in Ancient Israel. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.

Novak, David. The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism: The Idea of Noahide Law. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011.

Fine, Steven. Jews, Christians and Polytheists in the Ancient Synagogue: Cultural Interaction during the Greco-Roman Period. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Porton, Gary G. Goyim: Gentiles and Israelites in Mishnah-Tosefta. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.

Epstein, Lawrence J. Converts to Judaism: Stories from Biblical Times to Today. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 

Sassoon, Isaac. Conflicting Attitudes to Conversion in Judaism, Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Broyde, Michael J. A Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts. Jerusalem: Urim, 2017.

Palmer, Carmen. Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Gēr and Mutable Ethnicity. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 

Hicks-Keeton, Jill. “Rewritten Gentiles: Conversion to Israel’s ‘Living’ God and Jewish Identity in Antiquity.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 2014.

Frevel, Christian, ed. Mixed Marriages: Intermarriage and Group Identity in the Second Temple Period. New York: Bloomsbury, 2011.

Clenman, Laliv. “‘Is She Forbidden or Permitted?’ (bSanhedrin 82a): A Legal Study of Intermarriage in Classical Jewish Sources.” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 2009.

Moen, Ingrid J. “Marriage and Divorce in the Herodian Family: A Case Study of Diversity in Late Second Temple Judaism
.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 2009.


Gentile Celebration of Jewish Festivals in Antiquity 

Rudolph, David J. "Passover in Corinth (1 Cor 5:7-8)." Verge 2:9 (2010): 4.

Rudolph, David J. "The Celebration of Passover by Gentile Christians in the Patristic Period." Verge 2:3 (2010): 4.

Leonhard, Clemens. The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter: Open Questions in Current Research. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006.

Cantalamessa, Raniero. Easter in the Early Church: An Anthology of Jewish and Early Christian Texts. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1993.

Ben Ezra, Daniel Stökl. The Impact of Yom Kippur on Early Christianity: The Day of Atonement from Second Temple Judaism to the Fifth Century. Tübingen  Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

Danielou, Jean. The Bible and the Liturgy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1956.

Murray, Michele. Playing a Jewish Game: Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.

Harkins, Paul W., trans. Saint John Chrysostom: Discourses Against Judaizing Christians. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1979.

Wilken, Robert L. John Chrysostom and the Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late 4th Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Chilton, Bruce. Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2002.

Beckwith, Roger T. Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical, Intertestamental and Patristic Studies. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.


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