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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism
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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism / Shaye J.D. Cohen.
ISBN
0520244583 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xvii, 317 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 17, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes.
Contents
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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