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Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism

By Shaye J. D. Cohen

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780520920491
DOI
10.1525/9780520920491
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
977 kB (1000273 bytes)
Pages
334\335
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 18:24:22

Description

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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