Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? : Gender and Covenant in Judaism PDF
by Shaye J. D. Cohen
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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.
D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available.
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- Pages:334 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780520920491
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:334 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:06/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780520920491
