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

By Shaye J. D. Cohen

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0520212509, 9780520212503, 9781423717270
Open Library ID
OL7710473M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1208334 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
334\336
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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