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|title=A Treatise On Circumcision. Philo Judaeus |accessdate=2021-06-20}}</ref>
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==Other views==
The Christian fathers rejected the practice of circumcision at the [[Council at Jerusalem]] shortly before Philo's death.
Philo's views on the beneficial health effects of circumcision are rejected by most contemporary medical authorities.<ref name="racp2010">{{REFdocument
|title=Circumcision of Infant Males
|url=https://www.racp.edu.au//docs/default-source/advocacy-library/circumcision-of-infant-males.pdf?sfvrsn=eaa32f1a_10
|contribution=
|last=
|first=
|publisher=[[Royal Australasian College of Physicians]]
|format=PDF
|date=2010-09-01
|accessdate=2021-06-21
}}</ref> <ref name-"knmg2010">{{REFdocument
|title=Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors
|url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/images/KNMG-viewpoint-Non-therapeutic-circumcision-of-male-minors-27-05-2010-v2.pdf
|contribution=
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|first=
|publisher=Royal Dutch Medical Association
|format=
|date=2010
|accessdate=2021-06-21
}}</ref> <ref name="cps2015">{{REFjournal
|last=Sorokin
|first=S. Todd
|init=ST
|author-link=
|last2=Finlay
|init2=JC
|author2-link=
|last3=Jeffries
|init3=AL
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Newborn male circumcision
|journal=Paediatr Child Health
|location=
|date=2015-08
|volume=20
|issue=6
|pages=311-20
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578472/
|quote=
|pubmedID=26435672
|pubmedCID=4578472
|DOI=10.1093/pch/20.6.311
|accessdate=2021-06-21
}}</ref>
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