Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? gender and covenant in Judaism /

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Main Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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Table of 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.