Title: From Abraham to America : a history of Jewish circumcision /
Authors: Silverman, Eric Kline.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Berit milah History.; Circumcision Religious aspects Judaism; Circumcision History.; Antisemitism.
Contents: Circumcision, creation, and the cosmic phallus -- Covenantal corporeality; or, was Adam circumcised? -- Circumcision and the mark of Cain -- The life and times of Abraham -- The bloody bridegroom -- Lilith, yarmulkes, and the eye of circumcision -- The Jewish circumcision ceremony -- Circumcision, anti-semitism, and Christ's foreskin -- Circumcision contentions in contemporary Judaism -- Old whine in new foreskins: anti-Judaism in the contemporary debate over medical circumcision.