Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism

by Shaye J.D. Cohen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520212509
• ISBN13: 9780520212503
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"