
Episode 305: The Jewish History of Circumcision - Shaye Cohen
Judaism Unbound
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The History of Judaism
circumcision has had a particularly rich history, and still an ourgoing history. In that sense, i think this is a good example of what i we call t be the history of judiism. That we have here a constant interplay between doing things as we've always done them on the one hand, verses. On the other hand, we have new, new, novel meanings,. perhaps new procedures, but we certainly have new meanings. A are introduced into our our trunk judaism, which we keep throwing stuff into it. We generally just keep adding things to it as we invest new meanings and new understandings why we do what we do. And thank you so much to all
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