Marked in Your Flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / Leonard B. Glick.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 370 p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 019517674X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 296.4422 22 GLI
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| 296.4109015 MCK Sabbath And Synagogue : | 296.437 LEV The Miracle Passover / | 296.437 ROS Christ in the Passover : | 296.4422 GLI Marked in Your Flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / | 296.4509014 SEE Seeking the Favor of God / Vol.1 | 296.45371 PAS Passover Haggadah / | 296.495 VAN From Joshua to Caiaphas : |
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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