Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition.
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
2006.
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Numen Book Series
112.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.
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Call Number: BS680.C45 H86 2007
- Preliminary Material /
- Karin Finsterbusch , Armin Lange and K.F. Diethard Römheld
- Ritual Killing and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East /
- Beate Pongratz-Leisten
- Human Sacrifice in Greek Culture /
- Gabriele Weiler
- The Theological Implications of Child in and beyond the Biblical Context in Relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 /
- Michaela Bauks
- The First-Born between Sacrifice and Redemption in the Hebrew Bible /
- Karin Finsterbusch
- "They Burn Their Sons and Daughters. That Was No Command of Mine" (Jer 7:31) /
- Armin Lange
- Molek: Dead or Alive? /
- Bennie H. Reynolds
- Jewish Views of Human Sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman Period /
- Katell Berthelot
- Gender Difference and the Rabbis /
- Tal Ilan
- Human Sacrifice and Pauline Christology /
- Peter Lampe
- The Collective Suicides in the Persecutions of 1096 as Sacrificial Acts /
- Rainer Walz
- God's Sacrifice of Himself as a Man /
- Jasper Hopkins
- Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling," the Sacrifice of Isaac, and the Critique of Christendom /
- Christopher Roberts
- "Euthanasia" and Experiments on Human Beings [Part I: "Euthanasia"] (1947) /
- Udo Benzenhöfer , Wilhelm Rimpau and Viktor von Weizsäcker
- Still Ransoming the First-Born Sons? /
- Yaakov Ariel
- Slaughter and Innocence: The Rhetoric of Sacrifice in Contemporary Arguments Supporting the Death Penalty /
- Randall Styers
- Subjects /
- Karin Finsterbusch , Armin Lange and K.F. Diethard Römheld
- References /
- Karin Finsterbusch , Armin Lange and K.F. Diethard Römheld.