"....In Hellenistic thought, however, circumcision was regarded as an anathema - a rite that mutilated and distorted the natural perfection of the human body, a diminution of unimprovable wholeness and a reduction of beauty. During the Maccabean period, Greek influences became so attractive to Jews that many Jewish young men, who were often ridiculed by the cultivated Hellenists, attempted to disguise their circumcision by means of excruciatingly painful and potentially life-threatening surgery...."

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