Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Splitting the Difference -- Chapter 1. Circumcision and the Cultural Economy of Difference -- Chapter 2. (De- ) Judaizing Christ's Circumcision The Dialogue of Difference -- Chapter 3. Heresy, Theology, and the Divine Circumcision -- Chapter 4. Dubious Difference Epiphanius on the Jewish Christians -- Chapter 5. Scriptural Distinctions Reading Between the Lines -- Chapter 6. "Let Us Be Circumcised!" Ritual Differences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
This first full-length study of Jesus' circumcision reimagines the language of difference and identity in early Christianity. From his earliest appearance in the Gospel of Luke to the medieval Feast of the Circumcision, Christ circumcised embodies a new way of imagining Christians and their creation of a new religious culture
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-308) and index
