JUDAISM Tattoos are a form of self-wounding (in Hebrew havalah b’atzmo) and self-wounding is prohibited. Judaism believes that God owns our bodies and so defacing what we do not own is a sin ...

God appears to have been the first tattoo artist. But a few books later -- guaranteeing fodder for later Jewish and Christian religious debate -- in Leviticus 19:28, the same Lord tells Moses to ...