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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised?

by Cohen, Shaye J. D.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: xvii, 317 p.
Subject(s): Berit milah -- History. | Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. | Women in rabbinical literature. | Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. | Jews -- Identity. | Electronic books.
Year: 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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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