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- Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Part One: Jewish Circumcision and Christian Polemics
- 4. From Reticence to Polemic
- pp. 93-108
- Part Two: Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised? Four Responses
- 5. The Celebration of Manhood
- pp. 111-142
- 7. True Faith and the Exemption of Women
- pp. 174-190
- 8. The Celebration of Womanhood
- pp. 191-206
- Bibliography
- pp. 273-292
- General Index
- pp. 293-310
- Index of Premodern Sources
- pp. 311-317
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520920491
Related ISBN(s)
9780520212503
MARC Record
OCLC
61160202
Pages
334
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No