Monday, January 4, 2010

Josephus and Conversion

One of the key Josephus texts on conversion popped up today: "everyone should worship God in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience and not under constraint" (113).

He is speaking of some non-Jews who freely moved into Jewish territory. Elsewhere he seems to applaud the forced conversions of the Hasmoneans as they acquired territory.

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