A01=Eric Silverman
Author_Eric Silverman
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Category=JP
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Product details
- ISBN 9780742516687
- Weight: 621g
- Dimensions: 180 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Topics include rabbinic literature, early Christianity, Medieval notions of menstruating Jewish men and the blood libel, the relic of ChristOs foreskin, modern notions of the Jewish body and Jewish manhood, and the current debate over Jewish and routine medical circumcision in America.
Eric Silverman is associate professor of anthropology at DePauw University.
