Authors: Eric Silverman
ISBN-13: 9780742516687, ISBN-10: 0742516687
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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 |