"Beschneidung Jesu," Friedrich Herlin, Oil on Panel, 1466
"The metaphysical notion of covenant transcends the physicality of circumcision." Thus writes Sharon R. Siegel in the journal Meorot. From there Siegel proceeds to formulate a theological basis for the formal religious incorporation of a baby girl into the Jewish people and then proposes a liturgy that stresses the girl's entrance into the covenant. Sound familiar?
Yes, if you know anything about Pauline Christianity. Daniel Boyarin has written in A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (1994), that a significant topos of Christian writings from Paul forward was that "the materiality of physical, national, gendered human existence is transcended in the spirituality of "universal" faith."
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