Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Glick, Leonard B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Circumcision > Religious aspects > Judaism. Circumcision > History. Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789. Judaism > Relations > Christianity. Jewish physicians > Germany > History. Medicine > United States > History. Medicine > England > History. Circumcisie.
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Table of 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.