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Autore |
Cohen Shaye J. D |
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Titolo |
Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / / Shaye J.D. Cohen |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-35628-3 |
9786612356285 |
0-520-92049-X |
1-59875-589-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Berit milah - History |
Circumcision - Religious aspects - Judaism |
Women in rabbinical literature |
Rabbinical literature - History and criticism |
Jews - Identity |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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