![]() Eating, or at least tasting, the Holy Foreskins was a (relatively) common pastime.Ĭonsuming the flesh of Christ was, and remains, an important part of Catholic doctrine – the Catholic Church's position is that the wafer of the Eucharist literally becomes Jesus's actual flesh after being eaten. Stavrakopoulou says, "Of course, Jesus was Jewish." And for him to have been seen as superseding Judaism, she says, he had to be seen by his later followers as an especially observant Jew: "Just as he goes in and teaches in the synagogues, and just as he preaches and is called rabbi, obviously he would have been circumcised."Ħ. In The First Gospel of the Baby Jesus, a piece of writing roughly contemporary with much of the New Testament but which was not included in the final Bible, there is a verse that says Jesus's foreskin was not only removed, but kept: "the old Hebrew woman took the foreskin (others say she took the navel-string), and preserved it in an alabaster-box of old oil of spikenard". Luke 2:21 says: "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb." (From the King James Bible.) The no-turtleneck Jesus hypothesis has scriptural support. ![]() ![]() The consensus seems to be that he probably was.
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