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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / Shaye J.D. Cohen.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Shaye J. D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berit milah--History.
- Berit milah.
- Circumcision--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Circumcision.
- Women in rabbinical literature.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Pt. I. Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision
- Were Jewish women ever circumcised?
- Christian questions, Christian responses
- From reticence to polemic
- Pt. II. 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612356285
- 9781282356283
- 1282356283
- 9780520920491
- 052092049X
- 9781598755893
- 1598755897
- OCLC:
- 475945561
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