Circumcision, Women and Salvation

Abstract

The title of this paper sets its own agenda when considered in the form of a syllogism. What is the relationship between circumcision and women, what between circumcision and salvation? Merely to raise the question in this form is to indicate the ambiguity which might surround any answer, at least within the sort of debate with which NT scholarship is familiar. The immediately obvious solution would be to object that the question, together with the presuppositions and concerns which apparently inspire it, is born of a modern consciousness inappropriate to the critical study of the past: that it is an imposition on the text.1However, we may for the moment postpone the hermeneutical questions such an objection should provoke: the title is inspired not by the modern agenda of ‘women's rights’ or feminism but by that of the second century.

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