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



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Autore: Cohen Shaye J. D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / / Shaye J.D. Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
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
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.
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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.: 9910809138303321
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