Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism (2005 Cohen), book

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Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism (2005) is a book by Shaye J.D. Cohen.

Abstract

"Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.

Contents

pt. I. Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? -- Christian questions, Christian responses -- From reticence to polemic -- pt. II. Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? four responses. The celebration of manhood -- The reduction of lust and the unmanning of men -- True faith and the exemption of women -- The celebration of womanhood

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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