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{{Construction Site}}'''Gilgal''' is the name of the location in the hill country of [[Israel]], west of the River Jordan, and about ten miles north of the city of Jericho. The Israelites camped here after crossing the River Jordanin 1406 B.C.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www. biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+5%3A10&version=KJV |title=Joshua 5:10 |publisher=KJV |website=Bible Gateway |date=1611 |accessdate=2020-02-29}}</ref>
{{REF}}Gilgal came to be known as "the hill of the [[foreskin]]s."<ref name="Joshua 5:3"/> == Name adoption ==The name "Gilgal" was adopted as the name of an infamous British circumcision fetish [[Gilgal Society|society]].
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The Israelites, led by Moses, who apparently was ''not'' [[circumcised]] and seems to have placed little importance on the practice, did not practice [[Brit Milah| circumcision]] while they trekked in the wilderness for forty years. Most <ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+5%3A5&version=KJV |title=Joshua 5:5 |publisher=KJV |website=Bible Gateway |date=1611 |accessdate=2020-02-29}}</ref> All of the [[circumcised]] warrior class who had left Egypt had died, and few no warriors remained alive.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+5%3A4&version=KJV |title=Joshua 5:4 |publisher=KJV |website=Bible Gateway |date=1611 |accessdate=2020-02-29}}</ref>
After the death of Moses, Joshua assumed command of the Israelites. Joshua was faced with the conquest of Canaan,<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+6-12&version=KJV
|title=Joshua 6-12
|publisher=KJV
|website=Bible Gateway
|date=1611
|accessdate=2020-03-09
}}</ref> so he needed warriors. Lloyd deMause (1996) reports that [[Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma| childhood trauma]] (including circumcision) makes the subject more angry, aggressive, and violent.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=deMause
|first=Lloyd
|init=L
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence - Part 4
|journal=J Psychohist
|date=1996-05
|volume=23
|issue=4
|pages=344-92
|url=http://primal-page.com/ldfetal4.htm
|pubmedID=11609155
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=2020-02-27
}}</ref> <ref name="glass2003">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/pages/cultural/glass3/
|title=What the Bible Reveals About Circumcision and Sexual Violence
|last=Glass
|first=Michael
|init=
|publisher=Circumcision Reference Library
|date=2003
|accessdate=2022-11-08
}}</ref> Joshua must have known of that [[circumcision]] is an [[Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)| adverse childhood experience]] with traumatic effects, because he caused all of the male children born during the forty years in the wilderness to be [[circumcised]] in a mass circumcision at Gilgal to create warriors in preparation for the conquest of Canaan.<ref name="Joshua 5:3">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+5%3A3&version=KJV
|title=Joshua 5:3
|publisher=KJV
|website=Bible Gateway
|date=1611
|accessdate=2020-02-29
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision and violence]]
* [[Israel]]
* [[Trauma]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Judaism]]
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Psychology]]
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