Goy: Israel's Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile

by Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi

Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744900
• ISBN13: 9780198744900
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"