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Title

Sacrifice, scripture, and substitution : readings in ancient Judaism and Christianity / edited by Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Astell, Ann W.
• Goodhart, Sandor
• Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Meeting (2002 : Purdue University)

Description

xiii, 475 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Sacrifice, scripture, and substitution: readinga in ancient Judaism and Christianity is divided into two parts. The first opens with a conversation in which René Girard and Sandor Goodhart explore the relation between imitation and violence throughout human history, especially in religious culture. It is followed by essays on the subject of sacrifice contributed by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. The second part contains essays on specifric scriptural texts. The authors explore new ways of applying Girardian analysis to episodes of sacrifice and scapegoating, deomonstrating that fertile ground remains to further our understanding of violence in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures.

Series Statement

Christianity and Judaism in antiquity series ; v. 18

Uniform Title

Christianity and Judaism in antiquity v. 18.

Alternative Title

Sacrifice, scripture, & substitution

Subject

• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses
• Sacrifice > Biblical teaching > Congresses
• Sacrifice > Judaism > Congresses
• Sacrifice > Christianity > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "First delivered as papers in June 2002 at Purdue University in connection with the annual meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Substitutive reading : an introduction to Girardian thinking, its reception in biblical studies, and this volume / Sandor Goodhart and Ann W. Astell -- Mimesis, sacrifice, and the Bible : a conversation with Sandor Goodhart / Renø Girard -- Bloody logic : the biblical economy of sacrificial substitution and its eucharistic implications / Thomas Ryba -- Aspects of the transformation of sacrifice in Judaism / Michael Fishbane -- The Eucharist and the mimesis of sacrifice / Bruce Chilton -- Eucharistic origins : from the New Testament to the liturgies of the golden age / Robert Daly -- Life after death : violence, martyrdom, and academic life in western religions / Alan F. Segal -- Anti-Judaism, Josephus, and the Hellenistic-Roman period / Louis H. Feldman -- Beyond anti-Judaism : Louis Feldman and the 'lachrymose version' of Jewish history / Erich S. Gruen -- Mimesis, scapegoating, and philo-semitism : reading Feldman and Girard / Stuart D. Robertson.
• Creation and akedah : blessing and sacrifice in the Hebrew scriptures / Matthew Pattillo -- The unbinding of Isaac / Steven Stern -- Binding and blessing : a response to Stern and Pattillo / Sandor Goodhart -- Mimesis, sacrifice, and the wisdom of Job / Chris Allen Carter -- The expulsion of complaint from early Jewish worship / William Morrow -- The Book of Job and the problem of evil : reading from theodicy to the ethical / Sandor Goodhart -- Luke and the opportune time : reading the temptation story as preface to kingdom and prologue to passion / William Martin Aiken -- A gospel that preaches nonviolence and yet provokes violence / Gørard Rossø -- 'Exilic' identities, the Samaritans, and the 'Satan' of John / Ann W. Astell -- Aristotle's 'natural slaves' and Colossae's unnatural 'Scythians' : a generative exegesis of Colossians 3:11 / Christopher S. Morrissey -- Is an anti-sacrificial reading of Hebrews plausible? / Poong-In Lee.
• Hermeneutics, exegesis, and Renø Girard : a response to Christopher Morrissey and Poong-in Lee / Anthony Bartlett.

ISBN

• 9780268020385 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268020388 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011009410

OCLC

• 693809780
• SCSB-10509299

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library