Research Catalog

Title

The actuality of sacrifice : past and present / edited by Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Yossi Turner.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Houtman, Alberdina.
• Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-
• Schwartz, Joshua.
• Turner, Joseph Aaron.

Description

xii, 482 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

Sacrifice is a well known form of ritual in many world religions. Although the actual practice of animal sacrifice was largely abolished in the later history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is still recalled through biblical stories, the ritual calendar and community events. The essays in this volume discuss the various positions regarding the value of sacrifice in a wide variety of disciplines such as history, archaeology, literature, philosophy, art, gender and post-colonial studies. In this context they examine a wide array of questions pertaining to the 'actuality of sacrifice' in various social, historical and intellectual contexts ranging from the pre-historical to the post-Holocaust, and present new understandings of some of the most sensitive topics of our time.

Series Statement

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

Uniform Title

Jewish and Christian perspectives series.

Subject

Sacrifice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Conspicuous destruction and the economy of sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age East Mediterranean / Louise A. Hitchcock -- Reading as an act of offering: reconsidering the genre of Leviticus 1 / Dorothea Erbele-Küster -- The death of Moses as a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of Israel: a hidden biblical tradition / David Frankel -- 'So the sons are free': the temple tax in the Matthean community / Eric Ottenheijm -- Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Jesus Christ, high priest and sacrifice according to the epistle to the Hebrews / Adelbert Denaux -- Sacrifice without rabbis: ritual and sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to contemporary sources / Joshua Schwartz -- Sacrifice in 'Gnostic' testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries CE / Rienner Roukema -- Sacrifice as concession in Christian and Jewish sources: the Didascalia Apostolorum and rabbinic literature / Marcel Poorthuis -- Putting one's life on the line: the meaning of he'erah lamavert nafsho and similiar expressions / Alberdina Houtman -- Ritual is with people: sacrifice and society in Palestinian Yoma traditions / Michael D. Swartz -- Sacrifice of the mass and the sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas aagainst later Thomist theology / Harm Goris -- On purifying sacrifice in the philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel / Alexander Even-Chen -- Which reigion is most sacrificial? reflections on the transformations of sacrifice in early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism / Gerard Rouwhorst -- The restoration of sacrifices in modern Jewish liturgy / David Golinkin -- Sacrifice and repentance: the relgious thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik -- The subject of sacrifice? Levinas's confusing critique of idealistic subject philosophy / Renée D.N. van Riessen -- Can we be at peace without sacrifice? the connection between sacrifice and crisis in the work of René Girard / Simon Simonse -- Models of interactions between Judaism and Christianity as seen through artistic represenatations of the sacrifice of Isaac / Shulamit Laderman -- 'From the blood of my heart': Christian iconography in the response of Israeli artists to the holocaust / Rachel Berger -- The iconography of gendered sacrifice: women's army corps memorials in Israel and Great Britain / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz -- On sacrifices, victims, and perpetrators: Israel's new historians, critical artists, and Zionist historiography / Judith Frishman -- Tarkovsky's sacrifice: between Nietzsche and Christ.

Call Number

JFE 16-3131

ISBN

• 9789004284159
• 900428415X
• 9789004284234 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014039113

OCLC

893452106

Title

The actuality of sacrifice : past and present / edited by Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Yossi Turner.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

Jewish and Christian perspectives series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Houtman, Alberdina.

Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-

Schwartz, Joshua.

Turner, Joseph Aaron.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3131