Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / Leonard B. Glick.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 019517674X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780195176742
- 0195315944 (pbk.)
- 9780195315943
- 296.4/422 22
- BM705 .G57 2005
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | BM 705 GLI 2005 | 1 | Available | 01953159431 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.
"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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