Episode 305: The Jewish History of Circumcision - Shaye Cohen
Judaism Unbound
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Apolotrophaic, Turning Away Danger Ritual
The blood of the sacrificial lamb is also appotope, just like the blood of sepae sacrifice. The blood saves from death. Wards away that mysterious angerf god be angry. In exodis, chapter four, wit sepo and it wards away t the masit, whois out destroying the first born,. But not the first born of the israelites. Why not? Because we 've been circum so that theyve been protected by their circumcision. And i realize, when i look at the laws of passover in leviticus, in sardian, exodus 13, i see there that to be circumcised to eat of e pascal sacrifice. What
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