Marked in Your Flesh

Marked in Your Flesh
Title Marked in Your Flesh PDF eBook
Author Leonard B. Glick
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 385
Release 2005-06-30
Genre Medical
ISBN 019517674X

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From the author of "Abraham's Heirs" comes a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to modern day.

Marked in Your Flesh

Marked in Your Flesh
Title Marked in Your Flesh PDF eBook
Author Leonard B. Glick
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 385
Release 2005-06-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0198039255

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The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.

Marked In Flesh

Marked In Flesh
Title Marked In Flesh PDF eBook
Author Anne Bishop
Publisher Penguin
Pages 407
Release 2016-03-08
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0698190424

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In the fourth novel in Anne Bishop’s New York Times bestselling series, the Others will need to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and their community... Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the dynamic between humans and Others has changed. Some, such as Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn see the closer companionship as beneficial. But not everyone is convinced. A group of radical humans is seeking to usurp land through a series of violent attacks on the Others. What they don’t realize is that there are older and more dangerous forces than shifters and vampires protecting the land—and those forces are willing to do whatever is necessary to safeguard what is theirs...

Sainthood and Race

Sainthood and Race
Title Sainthood and Race PDF eBook
Author Molly H. Bassett
Publisher Routledge
Pages 233
Release 2014-09-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 1317808738

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In popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of sainthood, and opened new approaches to its study. What happens when the category of sainthood is interrogated and inflected by the problematic category of race? Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh explores this complicated relationship by examining two distinct characteristics of the saint’s body: the historicized, marked flesh and the universal, holy flesh. The essays in this volume comment on this tension between particularity and universality by combining both theoretical and ethnographic studies of saints and race across a wide range of subjects within the humanities. Additionally, the book’s group of emerging and established religion scholars enhances this discussion of sainthood and race by integrating topics such as gender, community, and colonialism across a variety of historical, geographical, and religious contexts. This volume raises provocative questions for scholars and students interested in the intersection of religion and race today.

Vision In Silver

Vision In Silver
Title Vision In Silver PDF eBook
Author Anne Bishop
Publisher Roc
Pages 530
Release 2016-02-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0451465741

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"Previously published in a Roc hardcover edition."--Verso.

The Gospel According to Mark

The Gospel According to Mark
Title The Gospel According to Mark PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Canongate Books
Pages 73
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Bibles
ISBN 0857860976

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The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

The Message of Mark

The Message of Mark
Title The Message of Mark PDF eBook
Author Donald English
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 248
Release 2020-05-19
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830812490

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In this BST volume, Donald English offers a wise, welcoming, and nontechnical guide to Mark, the smallest of the four Gospels. Along with exposition of each section of the text, English draws out principles and applications about the nature of true faith, the cost of discipleship, and how we should receive God's Word today.