
SkinjobCatastrophe
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Like a lot of traditions it is a combination of factors, but the origin is probably because the people living in the mountains in the middle of nowhere in Israel or I guess back then it technically would have been caanan/phonecia, would have noticed that the boys who got circumcised would have much lower chance of developing infections or diseases. With the complete lack of any medical knowledge more than 3000 years ago this would have been important.
But of course there are other elements, its a tradition, and seen as a sort of ceremony to become a man, these things probably became entrenched in their culture the longer the practice existed. You can see a similar thing in some african tribes today, where circumcision is also seen as a ritual of passage into manhood, and its part of the tradition to do it at a certain age.
Of course now that we live in modern society that is hygienic, circumcision has no point, but the people who made this practice popular were poor and had no medical knowledge and could have died just from a single infection so circumcision was very helpful.
But of course there are other elements, its a tradition, and seen as a sort of ceremony to become a man, these things probably became entrenched in their culture the longer the practice existed. You can see a similar thing in some african tribes today, where circumcision is also seen as a ritual of passage into manhood, and its part of the tradition to do it at a certain age.
Of course now that we live in modern society that is hygienic, circumcision has no point, but the people who made this practice popular were poor and had no medical knowledge and could have died just from a single infection so circumcision was very helpful.