circumcision?’ We return briefly then to the issue of circumcision itself. Several observations can be made. First, one cannot but notice the connection between the nature of the sign—circumcision—and the focus on a particular seed through whom the blessing promised to Abraham will eventuate. The fact that the covenant is extended through a ‘seed’ and the inescapable reality that circumcision is conducted on the very instrument of procreation suggests that circumcision is bound up with the recollection