The Actuality of Sacrifice: Past and Present

by: Houtman, A. Poorthuis, M. Schwartz, J. Turner, Y.

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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.

Preliminary Material
Editors: Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, and Yossi Turner
Pages: i–xii
Introduction
Authors: Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, and Yossi Turner
Pages: 1–5
1 Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age East Mediterranean
Author: Louise A. Hitchcock
Pages: 7–33
2 Reading as an Act of Offering: Reconsidering the Genre of Leviticus 1
Author: Dorothea Erbele-Küster
Pages: 34–46
3 The Death of Moses as a Sacrifice of Atonement for the Sins of Israel: A Hidden Biblical Tradition
Author: David Frankel
Pages: 47–67
4 ?So the Sons are Free?: The Temple Tax in the Matthean Community
Author: Eric Ottenheijm
Pages: 69–88
5 Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Pages: 89–106
6 Jesus Christ, High Priest and Sacrifice according to the Epistle to the Hebrews
Author: Adelbert Denaux
Pages: 107–122
7 Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to Contemporary Sources
Author: Joshua Schwartz
Pages: 123–149
8 Sacrifice in ?Gnostic? Testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries ce
Author: Riemer Roukema
Pages: 151–169
9 Sacrifice as Concession in Christian and Jewish Sources: The Didascalia Apostolorum and Rabbinic Literature
Author: Marcel Poorthuis
Pages: 170–191
10 Putting One?s Life on the Line: The Meaning of heʿerah lamavet nafsho and Similar Expressions
Author: Alberdina Houtman
Pages: 192–205
11 Ritual is with People: Sacrifice and Society in Palestinian Yoma Traditions
Author: Michael D. Swartz
Pages: 206–227
12 Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against Later Thomist Theology
Author: Harm Goris
Pages: 229–245
13 On Purifying Sacrifice in the Philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel
Author: Alexander Even-Chen
Pages: 246–257
14 Which Religion is Most Sacrificial? Reflections on the Transformations of Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
Author: Gerard Rouwhorst
Pages: 259–274
15 The Restoration of Sacrifices in Modern Jewish Liturgy
Author: David Golinkin
Pages: 275–283
16 Sacrifice and Repentance: The Religious Thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Author: Yossi Turner
Pages: 285–304
17 The Subject as Sacrifice? Levinas?s Confusing Critique of Idealistic Subject Philosophy
Author: Renée D.N. van Riessen
Pages: 305–322
18 Can We Be at Peace without Sacrifice? The Connection between Sacrifice and Crisis in the Work of René Girard
Author: Simon Simonse
Pages: 323–340
19 Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity as Seen Through Artistic Representations of the Sacrifice of Isaac
Author: Shulamit Laderman
Pages: 341–376
20 ?From the Blood of My Heart?: Christian Iconography in the Response of Israeli Artists to the Holocaust
Author: Rachel Berger
Pages: 377–400
21 The Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women?s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain
Author: Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Pages: 401–420
22 On Sacrifices, Victims, and Perpetrators: Israel?s New Historians, Critical Artists, and Zionist Historiography
Author: Judith Frishman
Pages: 421–446
23 Tarkovsky?s Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ
Author: Frank G. Bosman
Pages: 447–461
Index of Names
Editors: Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, and Yossi Turner
Pages: 463–468
Index of Sources
Editors: Alberdina Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, and Yossi Turner
Pages: 469–482

The Actuality of Sacrifice: Past and Present

by: Houtman, A. Poorthuis, M. Schwartz, J. Turner, Y.

• ISBN-13: 9789004284159 / 978-90-04-28415-9
• ISBN-03: 900428415X / 90-04-28415-X
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2014

Price: 159,00 EURO

1 copy in stock