Covenant of Blood

1: Circumcision as Symbol in the Jewish Psyche
2: Bible and Birth: Some Priestly Public Meanings
3: Interlude from Priests to Rabbis: Origins of a Liturgy
4: Reconstructing the Rite
5: Reconstructing the Rabbinic Meaning System
6: Wine, Blood, and Salvation in Rabbinic Judaism
7: Blood, Salvation, Works, and Faith: Circumcision in Early Judaism and
Christianity
8: Gender Opposition in Rabbinic Judaism: Free-flowing Blood in a Culture
of Control
9: Control and Transformation: "The Raw and the Cooked" in Rabbinic Culture
10: Women's Spirituality and the Presence of Mothers in Rabbinic Ritual
11: Medieval Rabbinism and the Ritual Marginalization of Women
Afterword: Brit or Milah? Circumcision in American Culture
Notes
Index