diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 9095213eb..3a54ffc0e 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ define( [
 	"./var/class2type",
 	"./var/toString",
 	"./var/hasOwn",
-	"./var/support"
-], function( arr, document, slice, concat, push, indexOf, class2type, toString, hasOwn, support ) {
+	"./var/support",
+	"./core/DOMEval"
+], function( arr, document, slice, concat,
+	push, indexOf, class2type, toString, hasOwn, support, DOMEval ) {
 
 var
 	version = "@VERSION",
@@ -258,12 +260,8 @@ jQuery.extend( {
 	},
 
 	// Evaluates a script in a global context
-	globalEval: function( code, context ) {
-		context = context || document;
-		var script = context.createElement( "script" );
-
-		script.text = code;
-		context.head.appendChild( script ).parentNode.removeChild( script );
+	globalEval: function( code ) {
+		DOMEval( code );
 	},
 
 	// Convert dashed to camelCase; used by the css and data modules
diff --git a/src/core/DOMEval.js b/src/core/DOMEval.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..222b0ca2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/DOMEval.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+define( [
+	"../var/document"
+], function( document ) {
+	function DOMEval( code, doc ) {
+		doc = doc || document;
+
+		var script = doc.createElement( "script" );
+
+		script.text = code;
+		doc.head.appendChild( script ).parentNode.removeChild( script );
+	}
+
+	return DOMEval;
+} );
diff --git a/src/manipulation.js b/src/manipulation.js
index eaf2e0998..cc4fd16cd 100644
--- a/src/manipulation.js
+++ b/src/manipulation.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ define( [
 	"./data/var/dataPriv",
 	"./data/var/dataUser",
 	"./data/var/acceptData",
+	"./core/DOMEval",
 
 	"./core/init",
 	"./traversing",
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ define( [
 ], function( jQuery, concat, push, access,
 	rcheckableType, rtagName, rscriptType,
 	wrapMap, getAll, setGlobalEval, buildFragment, support,
-	dataPriv, dataUser, acceptData ) {
+	dataPriv, dataUser, acceptData, DOMEval ) {
 
 var
 	rxhtmlTag = /<(?!area|br|col|embed|hr|img|input|link|meta|param)(([\w:-]+)[^>]*)\/>/gi,
@@ -192,7 +193,7 @@ function domManip( collection, args, callback, ignored ) {
 								jQuery._evalUrl( node.src );
 							}
 						} else {
-							jQuery.globalEval( node.textContent.replace( rcleanScript, "" ), doc );
+							DOMEval( node.textContent.replace( rcleanScript, "" ), doc );
 						}
 					}
 				}