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Marked in Your Flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / Leonard B. Glick.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 370 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 019517674X (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.4422 22 GLI
Online resources:
Contents:
"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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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Open Shelf Books Bishop Bukenya Library Open Access / General collection 296.4422 GLI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 155026

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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