Circumcision and Circumstance: Male Genital Mutilation in Ancient Israel and Ugarit

Circumcision appears in Genesis 17 as an infant rite, and mark of the covenant; Genesis 34 and Exod. 4.24-26 are written against a background of an adult rite, associated with marriage and fertility. By means of an attempted literary history of the motif, this study attempts a historical reconstruct...

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1. VerfasserIn: Wyatt, Nick (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Sage 2009
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Jahr: 2009, Band: 33, Heft: 4, Seiten: 405-431
weitere Schlagwörter:B Covenant
B identity-markers
B Ritual
B Election
B rites of passage
B Circumcision
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Zusammenfassung:Circumcision appears in Genesis 17 as an infant rite, and mark of the covenant; Genesis 34 and Exod. 4.24-26 are written against a background of an adult rite, associated with marriage and fertility. By means of an attempted literary history of the motif, this study attempts a historical reconstruction of the evolution of the ritual tradition, from common West Semitic marital rite de passage into specifically Jewish infant rite of social integration.
ISSN:1476-6728
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0309089209105687