Ebook: Mixed Marriages : Intermarriage and Group Identity in the Second Temple Period

The present volume is the result of discussions on the topic of intermarriage
during several international conferences since 2008. Its core
consists of papers presented at the SBL International Meeting 2009 in
Rome during two sessions on “Intermarriage and Group Identity in the
Persian and Hellenistic Period,” a discussion which was continued by the
SBL International Meeting in Tartu. Some additional papers have been
included to round off the present anthology.
I thank Claudia Camp for accepting this volume for the LHBOTS
series. Continuum’s Katie Gallof supervised the process patiently and
competently. Special thanks are dedicated to the DFG (German Research
Foundation) which supports a research project on intermarriage at the
Ruhr-University in Bochum. This volume presents results already arising
from this project.
I am particularly grateful to Benedikt Conczorowski, Bochum, who
dealt expertly with the organization, correction and formatting of this
volume, and who coordinated the assistance of Katharina Tautz, Florian
Mundt, Katharina Pyschny, Alina Golisch, and Jan Clauss, Bochum.
Jeffrey Rop, Pennsylvania, helped to revise the English of those studies
written by non-native English speakers with caution and understanding.
Many thanks to the whole team!
The volume is intended to provide a forum for the diversity of scholarly
approaches to improve progress in mixed marriage research. Hopefully
the current debate on Persian and Hellenistic period Yehud will
benefit from that, too.