Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America /
Glick, Leonard B.
Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / Leonard B. Glick. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.
"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.
019517674X (Hbk, cloth : alk. paper)
2004020069
Circumcision--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Circumcision--History.
Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
Jewish physicians--History.--Germany
Medicine--History.--United States
Medicine--History.--England
BM705 / .G57 2005
296.4422 Gli 2005
Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / Leonard B. Glick. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.
"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.
019517674X (Hbk, cloth : alk. paper)
2004020069
Circumcision--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Circumcision--History.
Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
Jewish physicians--History.--Germany
Medicine--History.--United States
Medicine--History.--England
BM705 / .G57 2005
296.4422 Gli 2005