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Complete contents the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia in 12-volumes which was originally published between 1901-1906.
CIRCUMCISION
Letzter Satz
"Contact with Grecian life, especially at the games of the arena, made this distinction obnoxious to the Hellenists, or antinationalists; and the consequence was their attempt to appear like the Greeks by epispasm ("making themselves foreskins"; I Macc. i. 15; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 5, § 1; Assumptio Mosis, viii.; I Cor. vii. 18;![[Bild: V04p093001.jpg]](http://d3sva65x0i5hnc.cloudfront.net/V04p093001.jpg)
, Tosef., Shab. xv. 9; Yeb. 72a, b; Yer. Peah i. 16b; Yeb. viii. 9a). All the more did the law-observing Jews defy the edict of Antiochus Epiphanes prohibiting circumcision (I Macc. i. 48, 60; ii. 46); and the Jewish women showed their loyalty to the Law, even at the risk of their lives, by themselves circumcising their sons."
Ich hoffe, damit die Frage von Bion in Beitrag #14 "Woher hast du das mit den "jüdischen Müttern"?" halbwegs beantwortet oder belegt zu haben.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com
Complete contents the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia in 12-volumes which was originally published between 1901-1906.
CIRCUMCISION
Letzter Satz
"Contact with Grecian life, especially at the games of the arena, made this distinction obnoxious to the Hellenists, or antinationalists; and the consequence was their attempt to appear like the Greeks by epispasm ("making themselves foreskins"; I Macc. i. 15; Josephus, "Ant." xii. 5, § 1; Assumptio Mosis, viii.; I Cor. vii. 18;
, Tosef., Shab. xv. 9; Yeb. 72a, b; Yer. Peah i. 16b; Yeb. viii. 9a). All the more did the law-observing Jews defy the edict of Antiochus Epiphanes prohibiting circumcision (I Macc. i. 48, 60; ii. 46); and the Jewish women showed their loyalty to the Law, even at the risk of their lives, by themselves circumcising their sons."Ich hoffe, damit die Frage von Bion in Beitrag #14 "Woher hast du das mit den "jüdischen Müttern"?" halbwegs beantwortet oder belegt zu haben.