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Do You Have to Get Circumcised to Become Jewish?
OF CUTTING AND COVENANTS
From the story of Ruth to the Apostle Paul, the ancients hotly debated whether women and men could convert to Judaism without circumcision.
Candida Moss
Published
Apr. 28 2019
12:21AM EDT
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
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