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From Abraham To America »

Authors: Eric Kline Silverman
ISBN-13: 9780742516694, ISBN-10: 0742516695
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Eric Kline Silverman

Book Synopsis

Silverman's new book is a comprehensive overview of Jewish circumcision throughout history. Beginning with Genesis, the author traces paradoxes and tensions in biblical-Jewish circumcision as seen both within Judaism and from the dominant, non-Jewish culture, and ends with the current debate over Jewish and routine medical circumcision in America. This book is essential reading in Jewish studies, medical sociology, and Judaic studies/theology.

Ch. 1	Circumcision, creation, and the cosmic phallus	1
Ch. 2	Covenantal corporeality; or, was Adam circumcised?	15
Ch. 3	Circumcision and the mark of Cain	33
Ch. 4	The life and times of Abraham	49
Ch. 5	The bloody bridegroom	75
Ch. 6	Lilith, yarmulkas, and the eye of circumcision	99
Ch. 7	The Jewish circumcision ceremony	117
Ch. 8	Circumcision, anti-semitism, and Christ's foreskin	145
Ch. 9	Circumcision contentions in contemporary Judaism	177
Ch. 10	Old whine in new foreskins : anti-Judaism in the contemporary debate over medical circumcision	213