circumcision

How To Use circumcision In A Sentence

• But the Law of Moses under which the Jews, as evidenced by their circumcision, are supposed to live under is very rigid and proscribes up to death for many transgressions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
• Circumcision is never required “urgently or emergently” to resolve phimosis. Neonatal Circumcision (Controversy? Who, Moi?)
• It says "Happy Brithday", as in brith milah, ברית מילה, Jewish circumcision. Let Me Count the Ways
• Her father, who died five years ago, also decided that the local practice of circumcision was not for his girls.
• The Jews seem to have performed the rite of circumcision with flint implements, for we read in Exodus that Zipporah, the wife of Moses, took a sharp stone for that purpose; and the phrase translated "sharp knives" in Joshua v. 2 -- "At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time" -- should be translated, as in the marginal reference, _knives of flint_. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• It basically came down to this for me: FGM is about controlling women – specifically about controlling the sexuality of girls and controlling their transition to and experience of womanhood – whereas my understanding of cultural/religious reasons for male circumcision is that those are different. The First Cut | Her Bad Mother
• Infant male circumcision as practised by the Jews occurs on the eighth day after birth.
• He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath.
• However, the line separating circumcision and castration is at times hard to discern in these texts because the mutilation, whether partial or complete, seems to instantiate a form of subjectivity that for all attempts at containment continues to inhere in the narratives and haunts even the most triumphant accounts of victory over Tipu in the early Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
• The programme has also helped to cut down the number of young girls lined up for circumcision in the area this year.