Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism

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.
  • ISBN10 052092049X
  • ISBN13 9780520920491
  • Publish Date 6 September 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 334
  • Language English