[B-Greek] Who does the circumcision?

Bart Torbert Bart.Torbert at ihsenergy.com
Tue Mar 30 18:18:45 EST 2004






I don't have a Bible handy to quote chapter and verse about Jesus being
taken to the temple after he was born.  But presumably it was to get
circumcised only with Mary being purified after childbirth.

I can imagine that in the temple, seeing that bureaucracies never change,
there were specific temple servants charged with circumcision.  But in the
hinterlands it would have been a bit looser with a local Rabbi or other
respected elder performing the task.

I have made some inquiries into this point but don't have anything back yet
except that the specific office of mohel is mentioned in the Talmud.  This
would date the office to a few hundred years after Jesus's time.

Bart Torbert
bart.torbert at ihsenergy.com




                                                                           
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Are any of you experts on the Jewish culture of the time?  Who was
the customary minister of circumcision?  I can't think of any place
in the NT that is clear about it.  Even for John the Baptist, we read
"On the eighth day they (apparently the neighbors and relatives
previously mentioned) came to circumcise the child."


Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
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