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Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America
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Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America Hardback - 2005

by Leonard B. Glick

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From the author of "Abraham's Heirs" comes a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to modern day.

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Hardback. New. Offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the controversy about the ethics of performing such surgery on helpless infants.
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  • Title Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America
  • Author Leonard B. Glick
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition New
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-06-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780195176742
  • ISBN 9780195176742 / 019517674X
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.4 x 1.03 in (24.23 x 16.26 x 2.62 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Judaism - Relations - Christianity, Judaism - History - Medieval and early
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004020069
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.442

First line

We begin with the biblical text on which everything depends: chapter 17 of Genesis.

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 05/01/2005, Page 133

About the author

Leonard B. Glick is a cultural anthropologist with a medical degree and a doctorate in anthropology. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hampshire College and is the author of Abraham's Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe (1999).

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