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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.

Jews --- Rabbinical literature --- Women in rabbinical literature. --- Circumcision --- Berit milah --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Women in the Talmud --- Berit mila --- Berith --- Berith milah --- Bris --- Briss --- Brit periah --- Brith --- Periah --- Judaism --- Identity. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Customs and practices --- absence of circumcision. --- bekhor shor. --- benediction. --- benet. --- berakhot. --- bible. --- blessing. --- ceremony. --- circumcision. --- cultural history. --- doctrine. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- jewish circumcision. --- jewish life. --- jewish women. --- jewish. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- nonfiction. --- orthodoxy. --- rabbinics. --- religion. --- religious belief. --- religious practices. --- religious women. --- rite. --- ritual. --- talmud. --- theology. --- torah. --- tradition. --- women and religion.