Is Genesis 17 the Beginning of the Circumcision Story?

Ouyou: Circumcision emerges along with some other in thetora, notably shaba, notably the food laws. We might say these now come as a package, as a way for israelites to affirm their identity ritin a context which is very threatening to their identity. Now circumcision emerges as covenate. Ouyou: This reading is not the beginning of ta circumcision story. It's more or less the climactic ending of the circumision story because now circumcision has a value it never had before. But that's actually not the true historical sequence. I can reconstruct rit how these meanings expand how these meanings change.