Samuel Holdheim - Über die Beschneidung zunächts in religiösdogmatischer Beziehung. Schwerin: Kurschhner, 1844. 88pp.

Holdheim takes the position that circumcision is not, like baptism, a sacrament of initiation, but is merely a command like any other. Nevertheless, he classifies it not as a national but as a Jewish law, and pleads for its retention.