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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Timothy/Titus and circumcision
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:46:40 -0600

Richard Fellows wrote:

> On Jan 8th Mark Goodacre wrote:
> <<does this mean that Paul had not been
> upfront initially that Titus was uncircumcised?>>
>
> I have just found the following passage from the Babylonian Talmud (b. Yev
> 45a-b):
>
> And Rav also ruled that the child is fit, for once a man appeared before Rav
> and asked him, "What [is the legal position of the child] where an idolator
> or a slave cohabited with the daughter of an Israelite?"
> "The child is fit," the Master replied. .....
> Rav Yehudah also ruled that the child is fit, for when one came before Rav
> Yehudah, the latter told him, "Go and conceal your identity or marry one of
> your own kind."
> When such a man appeared before Rava he told him, "Either go abroad or marry
> one of your own kind."
>
> This passage shows that someone of mixed parentage could pass as a Jew when
> traveling away from home.

Is the tradition contained within it 1st century?

Yours,

Jeffrey
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Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)

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