Shaye J. D. Cohen is Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. His earlier books include Josephus in Galilee and Rome: His Vita and Development as a Historian (1979) and From the Maccabees to the Mishnah: A Profile of Judaism (1987).

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Uncertainties

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ON God AND PARENTHESES
PROLOGUE: JEWS AND OTHERS

PART I: WHO WAS A JEW?
I
Was Herod Jewish?
2
"Those Who Say They Are Jews and Are Not":
How Do You Know a Jew in Antiquity When
You See One?
3
Ioudaios, Iudaeus, Judaean, Jew

PART II: THE BOUNDARY CROSSED:
BECOMING A JEW
4
From Ethnos to Ethno-religion
5
Crossing the Boundary and Becoming a Jew
6
Ioudaizein, "to Judaize"
7
The Rabbinic Conversion Ceremony

PART III: THE BOUNDARY VIOLATED:
THE UNION OF DIVERSE KINDS
8
The Prohibition of Intermarriage
9
The Matrilineal Principle
IO
Israelite Mothers, Israelite Fathers: Matrilineal
Descent and the Inequality of the Convert

EPILOGUE: JEWS, JUDAISM, AND
JEWISHNESS: US AND THEM
APPENDIX A: WAS MARTIAL'S SLAVE
JEWISH?
APPENDIX B: WAS MENOPHILUS
JEWISH?
APPENDIX C: WAS TROPHIMUS
JEWISH?
APPENDIX D: WAS TIMOTHY JEWISH?
GLOSSARY OF SOME HEBREW TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ABBREVIATIONS
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX OF PREMODERN SOURCES
INDEX OF MODERN SCHOLARS

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