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

Main Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10084602
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300 |a xvii, 317 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Women in rabbinical literature. 
650 0 |a Rabbinical literature  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x Identity. 
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