The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties

A note on God and parentheses

Prologue: Jews and others

pt. 1. Who was a Jew?

Was Herod Jewish?

"Those who say they are Jews and are not": How do you know a Jew in antiquity when you see one?

Ioudaios, Iudaeus, Judaean, Jew

pt. 2. The boundary crossed: becoming a Jew

From ethnos to ethno-religion

Crossing the boundary and becoming a Jew

Ioudaïzein, "to Judaize"

The rabbinic conversion ceremony

pt. 3. The boundary violated: the union of diverse kinds

The prohibition of intermarriage

The matrilineal principle

Israelite mothers, Israelite fathers: matrilineal descent and the inequality of the concert

Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness: us and them

Was Martial's slave Jewish?

Was Menophilus Jewish?

Was Trophimus Jewish?

Was Timothy Jewish?