Virtual program, advanced registration required. Throughout Jewish history non-Jews have joined the Jewish people. How they’ve done so, why they’ve done so, and how the Jewish community has supervised the transition have changed strikingly from one historical context to another. Yet some features of conversion to Judaism, or giyyur (in rabbinic terms), have been remarkably stable over the long period since rabbinic law became normative throughout the Jewish diaspora. In this talk we’ll look at major milestones in this long history, from biblical times to the eve of the modern period.