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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in rabbinical literature.
Rabbinical literature.
Jews > Identity.
Circumcision > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Berit milah.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
RELIGION > Judaism > Rituals & Practice.
Juifs > Identite.
Litterature rabbinique > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la litterature rabbinique.
Circoncision > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme.
Berit milah > Histoire.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Berit milah > History.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (334 pages).
ISBN:9780520920491

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