Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? [electronic resource] : gender and covenant in Judaism / Shaye J.D. Cohen.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xvii, 317 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 296.4/422 22
- BM705 .C65 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes.
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.
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