TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Shaye J.D.
TI  - Why aren't Jewish women circumcised?: gender and covenant in Judaism 
T2  - S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
SN  - 9780520920491
AV  - BM705 .C65 2005eb
U1  - 296.4/422 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Berit milah
KW  - History
KW  - Circumcision
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Women in rabbinical literature
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - 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
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