The prominence of the full proselyte in the early Synagogue appears in the ancient benediction for the righteous leaders and Hasidim, the Soferim and Synedrion, the ruling authorities of the Jewish nation, where special mention is made of “the Proselytes of (the) Righteousness.”(1322) These full proselytes pushed aside the half-proselytes, so that, while both are mentioned in the earlier classification, only the latter are considered by the later Haggadah.(1323) With the dissolution of the Jewish State no juridical basis remained for the _Ger Toshab_, the “protected stranger.” R. Simeon ben Eleazar expressed this in the statement: “With the cessation of the Jubilee year there was no longer any place for the _Ger Toshab_ in Judæa.”(1324) We read in Josephus that no proselytes were accepted in his time unless they submitted to the Abrahamitic rite and became full proselytes.(1325) However, as Josephus tells us, a strong desire to espouse the Jewish faith existed among the pagan women of neighboring countries, especially of Syria.(1326) The same situation existed in Rome according to the rabbinical sources, Josephus, Roman writers, and many tomb inscriptions.(1327) Conspicuous among these proselytes was Queen Helen of Adiabene, who won lasting fame by her generous gifts to the Jewish people in time of famine and to the Temple at Jerusalem; her son Menobaz, at the advice of a Jewish teacher, underwent the rite of circumcision in order to rise from a mere God-worshiper to a full proselyte.(1328) The Midrash(1329) enumerates nine heathen women of the Bible who became God-worshipers: Hagar; Asenath, the wife of Joseph, whose conversion is described in a little known but very instructive Apocryphal book by that name;(1330) Zipporah, the wife of Moses; Shifra and Puah, the Egyptian midwives;(1331) Pharaoh’s daughter, the foster-mother of Moses, whom the rabbis identified with Bithia (_Bath Yah_, “Daughter of the Lord”);(1332) Rahab, whom the Midrash represents as the wife of Joshua and ancestress of many prophets;(1333) Ruth and Jael. Philo adds Tamar, the daughter-in-law of Judah, as a type of a proselyte.(1334)