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Covenant of blood : circumcision and gender in rabbinic Judaism /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago studies in the history of JudaismPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1996.Description: 256 pages. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226347842 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226347834 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226347837 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780226347844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BM705 .H63 1996
Contents:
1. Circumcision as symbol in the Jewish psyche -- 2. Bible and birth : some priestly public meanings -- 3. Interlude from priests to rabbis : origins of a liturgy -- 4. Reconstructing the rite -- 5. Reconstructing the rabbinic meaning system -- 6. Wine, blood, and salvation in Rabbinic Judaism -- 7. Blood, salvation, works, and faith : circumcision in early Judaism and Christianity -- 8. Gender opposition in Rabbinic Judaism : free-flowing blood in a culture of control -- 9. Control and transformation : "The raw and the cooked" in Rabbinic culture -- 10. Women's spirituality and the presence of mothers in Rabbinic ritual -- 11. Medieval Rabbinism and the ritual marginalization of women -- Afterword: Brit or Milah? : circumcision in American culture -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-251) and index.

1. Circumcision as symbol in the Jewish psyche -- 2. Bible and birth : some priestly public meanings -- 3. Interlude from priests to rabbis : origins of a liturgy -- 4. Reconstructing the rite -- 5. Reconstructing the rabbinic meaning system -- 6. Wine, blood, and salvation in Rabbinic Judaism -- 7. Blood, salvation, works, and faith : circumcision in early Judaism and Christianity -- 8. Gender opposition in Rabbinic Judaism : free-flowing blood in a culture of control -- 9. Control and transformation : "The raw and the cooked" in Rabbinic culture -- 10. Women's spirituality and the presence of mothers in Rabbinic ritual -- 11. Medieval Rabbinism and the ritual marginalization of women -- Afterword: Brit or Milah? : circumcision in American culture -- Notes -- Index.

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