Blood for Thought : The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature / Mira Balberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balberg, Mira, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacrifice--Judaism.

Sacrifice.

Blood--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Blood.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, reinventing them as a site through which to negotiate intellectual, cultural, and religious trends and practices in their surrounding world. Rather than viewing the rabbinic project as an attempt to generate a nonsacrificial version of Judaism, she argues that the rabbis developed a new sacrificial Jewish tradition altogether, consisting of not merely substitutes to sacrifice but elaborate practical manuals that redefined the processes themselves, radically transforming the meanings of sacrifice, its efficacy, and its value.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Missing Persons

2. The Work of Blood

3. Sacrifice as One

4. Three Hundred Passovers

5. Ordinary Miracles

Conclusion: The End of Sacrifice, Revisited

Bibliography

Subject Index

Source Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520968660

0520968662

OCLC:

980346871