Assimilation versus separation : Joseph the Administrator and the politics of religion in biblical Israel /
"How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages. They have debated whether to assimilate by adopting local customs or whether to remain a God-centered people, loyal to their temporal rulers but maintaining the peculiar customs that separated them from their host...
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New Brunswick, U.S.A. :
Transaction Publishers,
©1993.
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