Leonard Glick (December 31, 1929 ~ January 9, 2024) was an American anthropologist, historian of ideas, and author.
[5] The book argues that the Jewish experience was profoundly shaped by the overwhelmingly medieval Christian majority.
[6] Glick published Marked In Your Flesh: Circumcision From Ancient Judea To Modern America in 2005.
[7] He theorizes that milah originated during the Babylonian exile among the Judean priests who are believed to have composed the P source of the Torah.
And that the main justification among Jewish philosophers and religious leaders lies in beliefs surrounding the control of male sexuality, as a visual marker of the Abrahamic covenant, beliefs surrounding fertility, and a sign of the father submitting to the political social order.