Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism (1996 Hoffman), book

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Covenant of Blood: Circumcision and Gender in Rabbinic Judaism (1996) is a book by Lawrence A. Hoffman.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Table of contents

1. Circumcision as symbol in the Jewish psyche -- 2. Bible and birth : some priestly public meanings -- 3. Interlude from priests to rabbis : origins of a liturgy -- 4. Reconstructing the rite -- 5. Reconstructing the rabbinic meaning system -- 6. Wine, blood, and salvation in Rabbinic Judaism -- 7. Blood, salvation, works, and faith : circumcision in early Judaism and Christianity -- 8. Gender opposition in Rabbinic Judaism : free-flowing blood in a culture of control -- 9. Control and transformation : "The raw and the cooked" in Rabbinic culture -- 10. Women's spirituality and the presence of mothers in Rabbinic ritual -- 11. Medieval Rabbinism and the ritual marginalization of women -- Afterword: Brit or Milah?: circumcision in American culture

External links

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