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

• Autore: Cohen Shaye J. D
• 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.
• 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.: 9910809138303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II