Title Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / Shaye J.D. Cohen.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
	S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	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.
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.
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Subject	Berit milah -- History.
	Berit milah.
	History.
	Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Women in rabbinical literature.
	Women in rabbinical literature.
	Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
	Rabbinical literature.
	Jews -- Identity.
	Jews -- Identity.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Subject	Circumcision.
Other Form:	Print version: Cohen, Shaye J.D. Why aren't Jewish women circumcised?. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 0520244583 (DLC) 2004030699 (OCoLC)57349150
ISBN	9780520920491 (electronic book)
	052092049X (electronic book)
	1423717279 (electronic book)
	9781423717270 (electronic book)
	1598755897
	9781598755893
	9780520212503
	0520212509
	9780520244580 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0520244583 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

Title Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / Shaye J.D. Cohen.

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