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According to Rabbinic interpretation of traditional Jewish sources,<refname="glick2005">{{REFbook
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SF6fbjNe0yYC&q=peri'ah
|title=Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America
}}</ref> It apparently reached peak popularity in the first century C.E.
Epispasm did not sit well with the rabbinate. In about 140 C.E. it was decreed that periah would be added to the ritual circumcision of infant Jewish boys.<ref name="peron2000" /> <ref name="glick2005" />
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