The ritualization of circumcision in medieval Judaism in relation to Islam and Christianity
An Overview
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4371778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabeth Hollender (Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-246 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0048721x.2012.642574 |
| OpenAlex | W2052365974 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
The paper analyzes the continuous medieval ritualization of Jewish circumcision with regard to interaction with the surrounding Christian and Islamic societies and their interpretations of circumcision as religious and cultural performance. While circumcision in Islamic society might have been regarded as a competing tradition that required the ritualization of Jewish circumcision as religious act, the Christian interpretation of circumcision as functionally parallel to baptism was instrumental in the development of the concept of the salvific power of circumcision. Yet the Jewish development should not be described as transfer of concepts, but as complex negotiation of Jewish and non-Jewish concepts, including the genealogical definition of Judaism and the question of national salvation
Baptism · Christianity · Interpretation (philosophy) · Islam · Judaism · Negotiation · Power (physics) · Relation (database) · Ritualization · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Genital Health and Disease · History · Philosophy · Religious studies
Judaism in Late Antiquity 4. Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection and The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity
Mothers and Children
The Jewish Pesach and the Origins of the Christian Easter
Border Lines
Die Geburt des Judentums aus dem Geist des Christentums
Judeophobia
Covenant of Blood
Covenant of Blood
Ritual
Marked in Your Flesh
| Highly cited | No |
|---|