Beginnings of Jewishness. Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, Paperback/Shaye J. D. Cohen

Beginning with the intriguing case of Herod the Great's Jewishness, this title discusses what made or did not make Jewish identity during the period, the question of conversion, the prohibition of intermarriage, matrilineal descent, and the place of the convert in the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds.