Jews are circumcised, gentiles are not. What, then, of Jewish women? Why are they not marked with a bodily sign attesting to their place within the covenant? Cohen argues that the Jews of antiquity seem not to have been bothered by this question probably because the fundamental Otherness of...
Review of Shaye J. D. Cohen, Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant in Judaism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005), xvii + 317 pp.doi:10.1159/000265616Krondorfer, BjornJournal of Men, Masculinities and SpiritualityJournal of Men Masculinities & Spirituality...
Certainly, the mitzvah of Milah has captured “public opinion” concerning the Jewish religion. It would hardly be an exaggeration to state that the concept of circumcision, in the eyes of both Jews and non-Jews, is seen as a defining element of Judaism. The circumcision is done specifically...
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Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, 12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. 13When you were dead in your sins and in ...
4 Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: all the people that came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of Egypt. 5 Though all the people that came out were circumcised, none of the people who were bo...
This passage identifies baptism as the new and greater circumcision. It also says that one rises to new supernatural life in Christ by baptism.Infants were circumcised in the Old Testament. If baptism is the new circumcision, it follows that infants are to be baptized in the New. If not, ...
All of the sons of Abraham were circumcised, but the sign upon the firstborn was truly the ring uniting them to God and consecrating them on the altar. At our altar only those who had first undergone this mystical marriage for the Lord could be offered. The firstborn of the Jews were ...
In the nine chapters of this book, Cohen explores Jewish responses, from late antiquity to the early twenty-first century, to these and related questions. His survey of Jewish legal and philosophical writings reveals that the answers have varied depending on time and place. However, Cohen makes...
doi:10.1007/s10835-008-9069-4Daniel J. Lasker