03243nam 2200733Ia 450 991080913830332120200520144314.01-282-35628-397866123562850-520-92049-X1-59875-589-710.1525/9780520920491(CKB)1000000000030650(EBL)236968(OCoLC)475945561(SSID)ssj0000271626(PQKBManifestationID)11206388(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271626(PQKBWorkID)10295705(PQKB)10436719(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084754(MiAaPQ)EBC236968(OCoLC)61160202(MdBmJHUP)muse30734(DE-B1597)520581(DE-B1597)9780520920491(Au-PeEL)EBL236968(CaPaEBR)ebr10084602(CaONFJC)MIL235628(EXLCZ)99100000000003065020041223d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhy aren't Jewish women circumcised? gender and covenant in Judaism /Shaye J.D. Cohen1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20051 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-21250-9 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.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.Berit milahHistoryCircumcisionReligious aspectsJudaismWomen in rabbinical literatureRabbinical literatureHistory and criticismJewsIdentityBerit milahHistory.CircumcisionReligious aspectsJudaism.Women in rabbinical literature.Rabbinical literatureHistory and criticism.JewsIdentity.296.4/422Cohen Shaye J. D157330MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809138303321Why aren't Jewish women circumcised3915557UNINA