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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_199706/ai_n8767353/pg_8 http://www.jstor.org/view/0003049x/ap030145/03a00030/2?searchUrl=http%3a//www.jstor.org/search/BasicResults%3fhp%3d25%26si%3d1%26gw%3djtx%26jtxsi%3d1%26jcpsi%3d1%26artsi%3d1%26Query%3dThe%2bBurning%2bBush%2bAND%2bthe%2bOrigin%2bof%2bJudaism%26wc%3don&frame=noframe¤tResult=0003049x%2bap030145%2b03a00030%2b0%2cFFFF01&userID=81732608@utsa.edu/01cc993316dc17115ce109a91&dpi=3&config=jstor
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/t05/kam02.htm
The principal things concerning which this rule was made were marriage and inheritance. If one marries a woman upon the condition that she should become a proselyte, the marriage is null and void, because it is on condition of something which was not yet in existence. The same is the case as regards inheritance-one cannot say to a woman: "I will leave my estate to the children you may bear." In both these cases, usury cannot be the reason.
a convert to Judaism, who had led a revolt of Jews and Arabs against the rule of
Alexander Voznitzin
http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?letter=s
http://www.bethimmanuel.org/articles/litany.pdf
Salo Baron cites demographic figures and argues that in 586 B.C.E. there were no more than 150,000 Jews, but that by the first century of the common era the Jewish population had grown to eight million. Louis Feldman observes that "The most likely explanation of this increase is proselytism..."