The term " pharaonic circumcision " ( Type III ) stems from its practice in Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, and " fibula " ( in " infibulation ") refers to the Roman practice of piercing the outer labia with a fibula, or brooch.

On the issue of circumcision, the books clearly hold very different views, that of the epistle's rejection of the Jewish practice as opposed to the gospel's promotion of the same.

* Edict of Hadrian prohibiting the practice of circumcision.

The Malagasy names for seasons, months, days, and coins in certain regions come from Arabic origins, as do cultural features such as the practice of circumcision, the communal grain-pool, and different forms of salutation ( such as " salama "-" hello " in Malagasy ).

In addition to this, Hadrian issued a decree prohibiting the practice of circumcision.

For example, Herodotus states that the Colchians, with the Egyptians and the Ethiopians, were the first to practice circumcision, a custom which he claims ( without historical proof ) that the Colchians inherited from remnants of the army of Pharaoh Sesostris.

The Greek inhabitants were shocked by the Semitic practice of circumcision, while various elements of Semitic dissent towards the dominant and assimilative nature of Hellenic civilization culminated gradually in the face of assimilation.

" Some Jews are known to have engaged in non-surgical foreskin restoration in order to join the dominant cultural practice of socializing naked in the gymnasium, where their circumcision would have been a social stigma.

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Some ethnic groups practice ritual mutilation, e. g. scarification, burning, flagellation, tattooing, circumcision or wheeling, as part of a rite of passage.

The majority of the Dogon women practice a class 2 circumcision, meaning that both the clitoris and the labia minora are removed.

In, we find that the Hivites did not practice male circumcision, one of the few peoples living in the land of Canaan that did not.

However, the Israelites born in the wilderness after the exodus from Egypt apparently did not carry out the practice of circumcision.

records that after King Antiochus effectively banned traditional Jewish religious practice, including circumcision, the Maccabean rebels " forcibly circumcised all the uncircumcised boys they found within the borders of Israel.

Although 19th century Reform leaders described it as " barbaric ", the practice of circumcision " remained a central rite " and the Union for Reform Judaism has, since 1984, trained and certified over 300 practicing mohels under its " Berit Mila Program ". Humanistic Judaism argues that " circumcision is not required for Jewish identity.

Some participants in focus group discussions in Zambia and Malawi said that Christians should practice circumcision because Jesus was circumcised and the Bible teaches the practice.

Paul argued that circumcision no longer meant the physical, but a spiritual practice ().

Later he more explicitly denounced the practice, rejecting and condemning those who promoted circumcision to Gentile Christians.

This decision was based on the belief that baptism had superseded circumcision (), and may also have been a response to Coptic Christians, who continued to practice circumcision.

The modern Roman Catholic Church maintains a neutral position on the practice of non-religious circumcision, and has never addressed the issue of infant circumcision specifically.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.

What is more, the legends have become so sacrosanct that the very habit of self-examination or self-criticism smells of low treason, and men who practice it are defeatists and unpatriotic scoundrels.

My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.

The principle is commendable but we suspect that in the practice somebody is going to get gulled.

and, though he repeated, over and over again, the spectacular figures of industrial and agricultural production in 1980, the `` ordinary '' people in Russia are still a little uncertain as to how `` communism '' is really going to work in practice, especially in respect of food.

If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

It should be enough to say that the practice of the state buying automobiles is at least forty years old.

The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

The One Leg Lunge is a split and all lifters practice this in their regular workouts.

A second and also good practice is to shear off the tops, leaving an inch high stub with just a leaf or two on each branch.

The Targo is a good outfit for fun shooting or for economic wing-shooting practice, but it's tougher than it looks to run up a score on the clay birds.

Acreage in excess of the minimum is good practice as recreation areas are never too large for the future and it is often more economical to operate one large area than several small ones.

To practice new procedures under guided supervision and with constant feedback is the fourth step.

It is the classroom teacher, however, who has daily contacts with pupils, and who is in a unique position to put sound psychological principles into practice.

Green ( Old World ) archaeoastronomers rely heavily on statistics and are sometimes accused of missing the cultural context of what is a social practice.

Although black is sometimes described as an " achromatic ", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like " black cat " or " black paint ".

In this case, is the smallest σ-algebra that contains the open intervals of R. While there are many Borel measures μ, the choice of Borel measure which assigns for every interval is sometimes called " the " Borel measure on R. In practice, even " the " Borel measure is not the most useful measure defined on the σ-algebra of Borel sets ; indeed, the Lebesgue measure is an extension of " the " Borel measure which possesses the crucial property that it is a complete measure ( unlike the Borel measure ).

Pharmaceutical Engineering is sometimes regarded as a branch of biomedical engineering, and sometimes a branch of chemical engineering ; in practice, it is very much a hybrid sub-discipline ( as many BME fields are ).

In practice, bus fares are collected on the bus while traveling, which is sometimes even cheaper than when paying at the ticket office ( there is an additional fee for stored luggage ) and sometimes a " ticket office fee ".

These are also sometimes known as communities of practice.

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

In practice, however, catalysts are sometimes consumed in secondary processes.

* Canadian spelling sometimes retains the British practice of doubling consonants when adding suffixes to words even when the final syllable ( before the suffix ) is not stressed.

In practice, however, " codec " is sometimes used loosely to refer to formats.

During competition season it often becomes seven days with practice twice a day sometimes.

Cheddar cheese was sometimes ( and still can be found ) packaged in black wax, but was more commonly packaged in larded cloth, which was impermeable to contaminants, but still allowed the cheese to " breathe ", although this practice is now limited to artisan cheese makers.

The establishment of dragoons evolved from the practice of sometimes transporting infantry by horse when speed of movement was needed.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

Most Reformed churches would practice a balance between these, i. e., all believers who are united to a church of like faith and practice, and who are not living in sin, would be allowed to join in the Sacrament, sometimes with a requirement of pastoral or elder approval.

This practice, due to its illegality, has generally become favored by groups excluded from the political mainstream ( e. g. far-left or far-right groups ) who justify their activity by pointing out that they do not have the money – or sometimes the desire – to buy advertising to get their message across, and that a " ruling class " or " establishment " control the mainstream press, systematically excluding the radical / alternative point of view.

The idea, sometimes regulated by law, is to use these portraits to make the public aware of the symbolic connection to the government, a practice that dates back to medieval times.

In practice this means that even on a correctly configured web server eavesdroppers can still infer the IP address and port number of the web server ( sometimes even the domain name e. g. www. example. org, but not rest of the URL ) that one is communicating with as well as the amount ( data transferred ) and duration ( length of session ) of the communication, though not the content of the communication.

To illustrate Protestant usage, in the traditional services and liturgies of the Methodist churches, which are based upon Anglican practice, hymns are sung ( often accompanied by an organ ) during the processional to the altar, during the receiving of the Eucharist, during the recessional, and sometimes at other points during the service.

It also is sometimes used as a euphemism for the practice of inbreeding, a practice that is generally frowned upon by horse breeders, though used by some in an attempt to fix certain traits.

People who practice self-hypnosis sometimes require assistance ; some people use devices known as mind machines to assist in the process, whereas others use hypnotic recordings.