Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources--from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars--Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available.
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"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy." - David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews "A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen's definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women's status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition." - Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women"
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"This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy."--David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews
"A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen's definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women's status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."--Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women
"A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen's definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women's status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."--Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women
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What happens at a Jewish circumcision? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
valid circumcision, women circumcised, covenantal mark, jewish circumcision, left uncircumcised, thirteen covenants, circumcision blood, covenantal ritual, covenantal value, carnal circumcision, unconditional commandments, connection between circumcision, canonical history, circumcised man, circumcision cannot, menstrual purity, rabbinic culture, general covenant, matrilineal principle, circumcision controversy, spiritual circumcision, physical circumcision, halakhic tradition, positive commandments, born circumcised Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bekhor Shor, Jewish Women Circumcised, Middle Ages, Pirqei de Rabbi Eliezer, The Celebration of Manhood, The Reduction of Lust, Mount Sinai, Old Testament, Christian Questions, Jacob Anatoli, New Testament, United States, Beta Israel, The Celebration of Womanhood, Book of the Commandments, Justin Martyr, Mishneh Torah, Mothers of the Synagogue, Bernard Picart, Hebrew Bible, Late Antiquity, Yom-Tov Lipmann, Babylonian Talmud, Christ Jesus, Frankfurt Journal New!
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What happens at a Jewish circumcision? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
valid circumcision, women circumcised, covenantal mark, jewish circumcision, left uncircumcised, thirteen covenants, circumcision blood, covenantal ritual, covenantal value, carnal circumcision, unconditional commandments, connection between circumcision, canonical history, circumcised man, circumcision cannot, menstrual purity, rabbinic culture, general covenant, matrilineal principle, circumcision controversy, spiritual circumcision, physical circumcision, halakhic tradition, positive commandments, born circumcised Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bekhor Shor, Jewish Women Circumcised, Middle Ages, Pirqei de Rabbi Eliezer, The Celebration of Manhood, The Reduction of Lust, Mount Sinai, Old Testament, Christian Questions, Jacob Anatoli, New Testament, United States, Beta Israel, The Celebration of Womanhood, Book of the Commandments, Justin Martyr, Mishneh Torah, Mothers of the Synagogue, Bernard Picart, Hebrew Bible, Late Antiquity, Yom-Tov Lipmann, Babylonian Talmud, Christ Jesus, Frankfurt Journal New!
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- The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1 by Moses Maimonides on 9 pages
- Dialogue with Trypho (Selections from the Fathers of the Church) by Justin Martyr on 8 pages
- The Legends of the Jews: From Joshua to Esther (Volume 4) by Louis Ginzberg on 5 pages
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11 (Summa Theologiae (Cambridge University Press)) by Thomas Aquinas on 4 pages
- Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro on 4 pages
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