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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Astell, Ann W.

Goodhart, Sandor.

Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Meeting (2002 : Purdue University)

Series:

Christianity and Judaism in antiquity ; v. 18.

Christianity and Judaism in antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible.

Sacrifice--Biblical teaching--Congresses.

Sacrifice.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Sacrifice--Judaism--Congresses.

Sacrifice--Christianity--Congresses.

Sacrifice--Christianity.

Sacrifice--Judaism.

Sacrifice--Biblical teaching.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 475 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2011]

Summary:

Sacrifice, Scripture, and Subsitution: Readings 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 specific scriptural texts. The authors explore new ways of applying Girardian analysis to episodes of sacrifice and scapegoating, demonstrating that fertile ground remains to further our understanding of violence in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780268020385

0268020388

OCLC:

693809780