Intermarriage and the ancestors of the Jews: Philonic perspectives
Intermarriage and the ancestors of the Jews: Philonic perspectives
The laws of the Torah include a clear and unambiguous prohibition of intermarriage between the followers of Moses and the other peoples of the promised land: Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizites, Hivites, and Jebusites (Deut 7:1–4). There must be no relationship, no “covenant” with them. Prefacing a sequence of prohibitions, culminating in the forbidding of intermarriage, the law enjoins only one positive command with respect to the treatment of these peoples: to exterminate them. The reason for the prohibition of intermarriage in this context is spelled out in terms of the inevitability of apostasy from the God of Israel,...
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Pearce, Sarah
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December 2015
Pearce, Sarah
802b7bad-e19e-473b-950b-5102629d3927
Pearce, Sarah
(2015)
Intermarriage and the ancestors of the Jews: Philonic perspectives.
The Studia Philonica Annual, 27, .
(doi:10.2307/j.ctt1b7x683.4).
Abstract
The laws of the Torah include a clear and unambiguous prohibition of intermarriage between the followers of Moses and the other peoples of the promised land: Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizites, Hivites, and Jebusites (Deut 7:1–4). There must be no relationship, no “covenant” with them. Prefacing a sequence of prohibitions, culminating in the forbidding of intermarriage, the law enjoins only one positive command with respect to the treatment of these peoples: to exterminate them. The reason for the prohibition of intermarriage in this context is spelled out in terms of the inevitability of apostasy from the God of Israel,...
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