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'''Epispasm''' is a word derived from ancient Greek, (''επισπασμοσ''), that means circumcision reversal or [[foreskin restoration]]. Epispasm was popular in the First Century among circumcised Jewish men who wanted to appear as Greek.<ref name="hall1992">{{REFjournal
|last=Hall
|first=Robert
|author-link=
|title=Epispasm: circumcision in reverse
|journal=Bible Review
|date=1992-08
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=52-7
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/hall1/
|accessdate=2020-07-17
}}</ref>
Hall (1992) reports that a surgical operation was necessary.<ref name="hall1992" />
Schultheiss ''et al''. (1998) report that, in an alternative to the surgical procedures, a weight, called the ''Pondus Judaeus'' was attached to the residual foreskin that pulled the skin downward and stretched it which resulted in [[tissue expansion]].<ref name="schultheiss1998">{{REFjournal
|last=Schultheiss
|first=Dirk
|author-link=
|last2=Truss
|first2=Michael C.
|author2-link=
|last3=Stief
|first3=Christian G.
|author3-link=
|last4=Jonas
|first4=Udo
|author4-link=
|etal=no
|title=Uncircumcision: a historical review of preputial restoration
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Plast Reconstr Surg
|location=
|date=1998-06
|volume=101
|issue=7
|pages=1990-8
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/schultheiss/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID= 9623850
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1097/00006534-199806000-00037
|accessdate=2020-07-17
}}</ref>
The practice of epispasm seems to have persisted from the Second Century B. C. to the Sixth Century A. D.<ref name="hall1992" />
{{REF}}
[[Category:Foreskin restoration]]
[[Category:Judaism]]