The actuality of sacrifice : past and present / edited by Alberdina Houtman [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houtman, Alberdina, editor.

Series:

Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 28.

Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, 1388-2074 ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacrifice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : BRILL, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 and 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Alberdina Houtman , Marcel Poorthuis , Joshua Schwartz and Yossi Turner

1 Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age East Mediterranean / Louise A. Hitchcock

2 Reading as an Act of Offering: Reconsidering the Genre of Leviticus 1 / Dorothea Erbele-Küster

3 The Death of Moses as a Sacrifice of Atonement for the Sins of Israel: A Hidden Biblical Tradition / David Frankel

4 ‘So the Sons are Free’: The Temple Tax in the Matthean Community / Eric Ottenheijm

5 Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman

6 Jesus Christ, High Priest and Sacrifice according to the Epistle to the Hebrews / Adelbert Denaux

7 Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to Contemporary Sources / Joshua Schwartz

8 Sacrifice in ‘Gnostic’ Testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries ce / Riemer Roukema

9 Sacrifice as Concession in Christian and Jewish Sources: The Didascalia Apostolorum and Rabbinic Literature / Marcel Poorthuis

10 Putting One’s Life on the Line: The Meaning of heʿerah lamavet nafsho and Similar Expressions / Alberdina Houtman

11 Ritual is with People: Sacrifice and Society in Palestinian Yoma Traditions / Michael D. Swartz

12 Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against Later Thomist Theology / Harm Goris

13 On Purifying Sacrifice in the Philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel / Alexander Even-Chen

14 Which Religion is Most Sacrificial? Reflections on the Transformations of Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism / Gerard Rouwhorst

15 The Restoration of Sacrifices in Modern Jewish Liturgy / David Golinkin

16 Sacrifice and Repentance: The Religious Thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik / Yossi Turner

17 The Subject as Sacrifice? Levinas’s Confusing Critique of Idealistic Subject Philosophy / Renée D.N. van Riessen

18 Can We Be at Peace without Sacrifice? The Connection between Sacrifice and Crisis in the Work of René Girard / Simon Simonse

19 Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity as Seen Through Artistic Representations of the Sacrifice of Isaac / Shulamit Laderman

20 ‘From the Blood of My Heart’: Christian Iconography in the Response of Israeli Artists to the Holocaust / Rachel Berger

21 The Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women’s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

22 On Sacrifices, Victims, and Perpetrators: Israel’s New Historians, Critical Artists, and Zionist Historiography / Judith Frishman

23 Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ / Frank G. Bosman

Index of Names

Index of Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Include indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28423-0

OCLC:

897647236

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004284234 DOI