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Christ Circumcised: A Study in Early Christian History and Difference (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion) by Jacobs, Andrew S. is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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In the first full-length study of the circumcision of Jesus, Andrew S. Jacobs turns to an unexpected symbol—the stereotypical mark of the Jewish covenant on the body of the Christian savior—to explore how and why we think about difference and identity in early Christianity. Jacobs explores the subject of Christ's circumcision in texts dating from the first through seventh centuries of the Common Era. Using a diverse toolkit of approaches, including the psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and poststruc
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- Author
- Jacobs, Andrew S.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812206517
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Christian, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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