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From Stranger to Convert: Turning a Biblical Outsider into a Rabbinic Insider (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
1 hour 30 minutes Posted Oct 30, 2017 at 10:10 pm.
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Ethan Tucker. Fall Lecture Series, Part 2: Having seen the Biblical material in depth, we will now look at how Rabbinic sources attempt to resolve inconsistencies in the Biblical treatment of the ger. Along the way, the Rabbis create two types of gerim and two types of outsiders who can enter into the Jewish community—the ger toshav (a non-Jewish resident in Jewish communities) and the ger tzedek, the righteous convert who begins a Gentile and becomes a Jew.