. Jewish identity is defined by rules Circumcision is one of the main rules Maybe you would like to create a league with five bases, two outs per inning etc but it won't be called baseball
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Replying to @time2reclaim @realChaim_Rubin and
The original description of the Covenant (Genesis 15 in the Jahwist text) had no reference to
#circumcision. That story was revised only after the Babylonian Captivity (& moved to Genesis 17) by priests who thereafter pretended the circumcision reference had always been there.2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @RockerMan_198 and
. Except that there are multiple references to circumcision in the Torah &Prophets in different contexts, and your absurd statement has no basis whatsoever, why the hell would they do that? Know how many crackpot ideas all begin with the rabbis or priests changing &lying etc?pic.twitter.com/fwueznsJIN
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Replying to @realChaim_Rubin @RockerMan_198 and
The only references in the Torah to infant
#circumcision being a requirement are found in Genesis & Leviticus, and both of them were added by the priests only after the Babylonian Captivity. My statement is based on academic research into the drafting history of the Torah.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @realChaim_Rubin and
Why the priests so revised the Torah is a good question, since child
#circumcision on its face isn't something that could possibly have been decreed by a beneficent God. Likely they were cut themselves, & so thought all males should be, i.e., exactly what many cut men think today2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @RockerMan_198 and
. Circular reasoning I have to admit if God had not specified circumcision I wouldn't have come up with the idea myself It doesn't explain why cultures other than Jews circumcise Or why epidemiological evidence shows public health benefits of circumcision
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Replying to @realChaim_Rubin @RockerMan_198 and
In his book Marked in Your Flesh, anthropologist Leonard Glick explains (Chapter 1, footnote 6): "many Middle Eastern peoples, including the ancient Hebrews, genitally altered some boys or youths as a *custom*, [but] it was not until around 500 BC that the Judeans defined...
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Replying to @cooney21 @realChaim_Rubin and
...circumcision as an *obligatory* ritual practice for *all* male *infants*." [* words indicate Glick's italics]. So modern biblical scholars say that first the priests were cut as custom or badge of their priesthood, and then they (not God) made it obligatory for all.
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Until you can acknowledge Genesis 1:1-3 has been invalidated as being anything like an accurate account of the origins of the universe, I'm not falling into the trap of expanding on the information I've already given you, only to have you reject it b/c it contradicts the Torah.
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