Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520212509
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0520244583
,
052092049X
,
1598755897
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1423717279
,
9780520212503
,
9780520244580
,
9780520920491
,
9781598755893
,
9781423717270
Series Statement:
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Content:
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
Content:
Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? -- Christian questions, Christian responses -- From reticence to polemic -- 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen, Shaye J.D Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005
Language:
English
URL:
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Author information:
Cohen, Shaye J. D. 1948-
