Why do Jews circumcise boy children?
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Alison L. Joseph [+ ]
Gratz College
Alison L. Joseph is Director of Digital Scholarship and Associate Professor of Bible at Gratz College. She is the author of numerous publications, most notably Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics, which received the 2016 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. She received her PhD in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MA in Jewish Studies from Emory University. She also holds undergraduate degrees from Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Description
The Jewish practice of male circumcision begins in the Hebrew Bible with a command to the patriarch Abraham and continues today in contemporary Jewish practice around the world.