> "Recent scholarship" of this sort, IMHO, is nothing but a hopeless attempt
> to cling to a hopelessly false Egyptian chronology that is incompatible
> with both archaeology and the historical records left by ancient peoples.
> Jews of the time of Herodotos, and ever since, rely not on "recent
> scholarship" but on their own historical memory as recorded in the
> books we call the "Bible." "Exodus" insists that circumcision was
> introduced by Moses, in Egypt.
The author of Genesis (cf. Genesis 17) insists that circumcision was demanded by G-D of Abram in Canaan. His account goes on to describe how the renamed Abraham in turn circumcised himself and his household and instituted the practice for his descendents, one of whom was Moses.
Chris