The Jewish body
By: Melvin Konner.
Series: Jewish encounters
Publisher: Nextbook; Schocken
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780805242362
Subjects: Body, Human -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Body, Human,  in literature; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Body, Human, in the Bible; Body, Human, in rabbinical literature; Jews -- Identity; Race; Stereotypes (Social psychology); Body image -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: God's body; title: "The fruitful cut"; title: Greeks and Jews; title: Adam's rib?; title: Dangerous bodies; title: God's beard; title: "Hath not a Jew eyes?"; title: Race and destiny; title: The body returns; title: Tough Jews; title: The trowel and the sword; title: The eye of the beholder; title: Bodily fictions; title: Jewish power; title: Deborah's daughters; title: Jewish genes?.