From Abraham to America

From Abraham to America

Author: Eric Kline Silverman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780742516694

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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, and ends with the current debate over Jewish and routine medical circumcision in America. This book is essential reading in Jewish studies, medical sociology, and Judaic studies/theology.