Marked in your flesh circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America
"This is my covenant" : circumcision in the world of Temple Judaism -- "Great is circumcision" : Christian condemnation, Jewish veneration -- "Offering incense to heaven" : Jewish circumcision in medieval and early modern Europe -- "The height of foulness" : c...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford u.a.
Oxford University Press
2005
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This is my covenant" : circumcision in the world of Temple Judaism -- "Great is circumcision" : Christian condemnation, Jewish veneration -- "Offering incense to heaven" : Jewish circumcision in medieval and early modern Europe -- "The height of foulness" : circumcision in European religious and popular culture -- "Trembling of the hands" : radical changes in a pivotal century -- Good sanitarians : circumcision medicalized -- "This little operation" : Jewish-American physicians and twentieth-century circumcision advocacy -- Unanswerable questions, questionable answers : justifying ritual circumcision -- "Deep feelings of nervousness" : circumnavigating the taboo topic |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 370 S. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780195315943 978-0-19-531594-3 9780195176742 978-0-19-517674-2 019517674X 0-19-517674-X 9780195315944 |