Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? [[electronic resource] ] : gender and covenant in Judaism / / Shaye J.D. Cohen
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Cohen Shaye J. D
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| Titolo: |
Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? [[electronic resource] ] : gender and covenant in Judaism / / Shaye J.D. Cohen
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 296.4/422 |
| Soggetto topico: | Berit milah - History |
| Circumcision - Religious aspects - Judaism | |
| Women in rabbinical literature | |
| Rabbinical literature - History and criticism | |
| Jews - Identity | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | absence of circumcision |
| bekhor shor | |
| benediction | |
| benet | |
| berakhot | |
| bible | |
| blessing | |
| ceremony | |
| circumcision | |
| cultural history | |
| doctrine | |
| femininity | |
| feminism | |
| gender roles | |
| gender studies | |
| gender | |
| jewish circumcision | |
| jewish life | |
| jewish women | |
| jewish | |
| judaica | |
| judaism | |
| nonfiction | |
| orthodoxy | |
| rabbinics | |
| religion | |
| religious belief | |
| religious practices | |
| religious women | |
| rite | |
| ritual | |
| talmud | |
| theology | |
| torah | |
| tradition | |
| women and religion | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Why aren't Jewish women circumcised |
| ISBN: | 1-282-35628-3 |
| 9786612356285 | |
| 0-520-92049-X | |
| 1-59875-589-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783319703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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