The actuality of sacrifice : past and present /

"Sacrifice is part of many religions. While the actual ritual has often been abolished, the concept remains alive through stories, rituals, calendars and art. The essays in this book discuss the concept from various social, historical and intellectual contexts ranging from the pre-historical pe...

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Other Authors: Houtman, Alberdina (Editor), Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955- (Editor), Schwartz, Joshua (Editor), Turner, Joseph Aaron (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014
Series:Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; volume 28.
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505 0 |a Part 1. Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible. 1. Conspicuous destruction and the economy of sacrifice in the bronze and early iron age East Mediterranean -- 2. Reading as an act of offering: reconsidering the Genre of Leviticus 1 -- 3. The death of Moses as a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of Israel: a hidden Biblical tradition -- Part 2. New Testament and post-Biblical Judaism. 4. 'So the sons are free': the temple tax in the Matthean community -- 5. Sacrifice in the Dead Sea scrolls -- 6. Jesus Christ, high priest and sacrifice according to the Epistle to the Hebrews -- 7. Sacrifice without the rabbis: ritual and sacrifice in the Second Temple period according to contemporary sources -- Part 3. Early Christianity and Rabbinic literature. 8. Sacrifice in 'Gnostic' testimonies of the second and third centuries CE -- 9. Sacrifice as concession in Christian and Jewish sources: the Didascalia Apostolorum and rabbinic literature -- 10. Putting one's life on the line: the meaning of he'erah lamavet nafsho and similar expressions -- 11. Ritual is with people: sacrifice and society in Palestinian Yoma traditions -- Part 4. Thoughts on sacrifice in the high middle ages. 12. Sacrifice of the Mass and the sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against later Thomist theology -- 13. On purifying sacrifice in the philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel -- Part 5. Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian liturgy. 14. Which religion is most sacrificial? reflections on the transformations of sacrifice in early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism -- 15. The restoration of sacrifices in modern Jewish liturgy -- Part 6. Sacrifice in modern philosophy. 16. Sacrifice and repentance: the religious thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik -- 17. The subject as sacrifice? Levinas's confusing critique of idealistic subject philosophy -- 18. Can we be at peace without sacrifice? the connection between sacrifice and crisis in the work of René Girard -- Part 7. Sacrifice in art and culture. 19. Models of interaction between Judaism and Christianity as seen through artistic representations of the sacrifice of Isaac -- 20. 'From the blood of my heart': Christian iconography in the response of Israeli artists to the Holocaust -- 21. The iconography of gendered sacrifice: Women's Army Corps memorials in Israel and Great Britain -- 22. On sacrifices, victims, and perpetrators: Israel's new historians, critical artists, and Zionist historiography -- 23. Tarkovsky's sacrifice: between Nietzsche and Christ. 
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