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EPSTEIN/CONVERSION TO JUDAISM
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Halakhah, and the Boundaries o f Modern Jewish Identity
(Lanham,
Maryland: University Press of America, 1989). A provocative
view of conversion in Jewish religious thought can be found
in Yehezkel Kaufmann’s
The Religion of Israel: From Its Beginnings
to the Babylonian Exile,
trans. Moshe Greenberg (Chicago: Uni
versity of Chicago Press, 1960).
In addition to book material, there are many important rab
binic and doctoral theses on the subject of conversion. Among
the most useful of the theses are: Randall Chesnutt’s
Conversion
inJoseph and Aseneth
(Duke University, 1986); Albert Micah Lew
is’s
Conversion as a Process of Adult Socialization
(Hebrew Union
College, 1969); Marius Rasinsky’s
The Jewish Doctrine of Prose-
lytism and Propaganda
(Hebrew Union College, 1914); and Rob
ert P. Vande Kappelle’s
Evidence of a Jewish Proselytizing Tendency
in the Old Greek (Septuagint) Version of the Book of Isaiah
(Princeton
Theological Seminary, 1977).
Many of these books and articles contain bibliographical ref
erences for those who wish to do further reading. Cumulatively,
they provide an invaluable insight into the nature of religious
conversion to Judaism.