Description
| Summary: | "Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls examines the meaning of the term gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls. While often interpreted as a resident alien, this study of the term as it is employed within scriptural rewriting in the Dead Sea Scrolls concludes that the gēr is a Gentile convert to Judaism. Contrasting the gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls against scriptural predecessors, Carmen Palmer finds that a conversion is possible by means of mutable ethnicity. Furthermore, mutable features of ethnicity in the sectarian movement affiliated with the Dead Sea Scrolls include shared kinship, connection to land, and common culture in the practice of circumcision. The sectarian movement is not as closed toward Gentiles as has been commonly considered"--
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| Item Description: | "This study is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation"--Author's acknowledgments.
Text is in English, with original Hebrew & Greek text from the Dead Sea Scrolls shown and translated into English. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 231 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004378186
9004378189 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2018). |
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