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This stage of Jewish circumcision was implemented in the 2nd century by hardline rabbis who wanted to make it difficult for Jewish men to [[Foreskin restoration|restore]].<ref>{{REFbook
| last=Glick | first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Glick | year=2005 | title=Marked in Your Flesh | url= | work= | editor= | edition= | volume= | chapter="<q>This Is My Covenant"</q>, Circumcision in the World of Temple Judaism | pages=44 | location=New York, New York | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=0-19-517674-X | quote=For obvious reasons this was anathema to the rabbis: tantamount to rejection of Judaism and defiance of rabbinic authority. | accessdate=2011-09-23 | note=
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It was customary for Greek athletes at the time to compete naked, and Jewish men were [[Foreskin restoration|stretching]] out their foreskins to match their Greek counterparts, from at least as early as the 2nd century BCE.<ref>{{REFbook
| last=Glick | first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Glick | year=2005 | title=Marked in Your Flesh | url= | work= | editor= | edition= | volume= | chapter="<q>This Is My Covenant"</q>, Circumcision in the World of Temple Judaism | pages=44 | location=New York, New York | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=0-19-517674-X | quote=Foreskin stretching (called "uncircumcision," or epispasm) appears to have been a common practice among Hellenized Jewish men... | accessdate=2011-09-23 | note=
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