All of this is an argumentum ex silentio (which opposes standard anthropological findings). It's also totally irrelevant. Judaism requires conversion. Katz' findings are good for over a 2500 year span. Advocating Biblical religiousity are you? Including Moloch worship?https://twitter.com/Shmarya/status/1050407431665344512 …
than claiming "absence of evidence isn't evidence", especially when you realize early rabbis debated this exact issue. There were multiple views. Some did not hold circumcision to be an integral part of conversion process. There were quickie conversions that were nothing more..2/
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than quick affirmations of faith with no study necessary, just a commitment from the convert to study after the conversion. No beit din. No circumcision. No immersion. No study. What became standardized in the years after the destruction of the 2nd Temple was not ...3/
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standardized or universally accepted before it. And the further back one goes in history, the less any specific requirements for conversion exist or are practiced. Fact. 4/
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