Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / Shaye J.D. Cohen.
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TextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type: - 9780520920491
- 052092049X
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- 9781423717270
- 1598755897
- 9781598755893
- 9780520212503
- 0520212509
- 9780520244580
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- Berit milah -- History
- Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
- Women in rabbinical literature
- Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
- Jews -- Identity
- Berit milah -- Histoire
- Circoncision -- Aspect religieux -- Judaïsme
- Femmes dans la littérature rabbinique
- Littérature rabbinique -- Histoire et critique
- Juifs -- Identité
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- Rituals & Practice
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- General
- Berit milah
- Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
- Jews -- Identity
- Rabbinical literature
- Women in rabbinical literature
- absence of circumcision
- bekhor shor
- benediction
- benet
- berakhot
- bible
- blessing
- ceremony
- circumcision
- cultural history
- doctrine
- femininity
- feminism
- gender roles
- gender studies
- gender
- jewish circumcision
- jewish life
- jewish women
- jewish
- judaica
- judaism
- nonfiction
- orthodoxy
- rabbinics
- religion
- religious belief
- religious practices
- religious women
- rite
- ritual
- talmud
- theology
- torah
- tradition
- women and religion
- 296.4/422 22
- BM705 .C65 2005eb
- online - EBSCO
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? -- Christian questions, Christian responses -- From reticence to polemic -- Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? four responses. The celebration of manhood -- The reduction of lust and the unmanning of men -- True faith and the exemption of women -- The celebration of womanhood.
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.
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English.