Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism - The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520212503 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 26 Aug 2005 |
DEWEY: | 296.4422 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xvii, 317 |
Weight: | 606g |
Height: | 232mm |
Width: | 159mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |