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

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume 28
• TeilnehmendeR: Houtman, Alberdina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (494 p.)
• Notes: Include indexes.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age East Mediterranean /; 2 Reading as an Act of Offering: Reconsidering the Genre of Leviticus 1 /; 3 The Death of Moses as a Sacrifice of Atonement for the Sins of Israel: A Hidden Biblical Tradition /; 4 ‘So the Sons are Free’: The Temple Tax in the Matthean Community /; 5 Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls /; 6 Jesus Christ, High Priest and Sacrifice according to the Epistle to the Hebrews /; 7 Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to Contemporary Sources /; 8 Sacrifice in ‘Gnostic’ Testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries ce /; 9 Sacrifice as Concession in Christian and Jewish Sources: The Didascalia Apostolorum and Rabbinic Literature /; 10 Putting One’s Life on the Line: The Meaning of heʿerah lamavet nafsho and Similar Expressions /; 11 Ritual is with People: Sacrifice and Society in Palestinian Yoma Traditions /; 12 Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against Later Thomist Theology /; 13 On Purifying Sacrifice in the Philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel /; 14 Which Religion is Most Sacrificial? Reflections on the Transformations of Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism /; 15 The Restoration of Sacrifices in Modern Jewish Liturgy /; 16 Sacrifice and Repentance: The Religious Thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik /; 17 The Subject as Sacrifice? Levinas’s Confusing Critique of Idealistic Subject Philosophy /; 18 Can We Be at Peace without Sacrifice? The Connection between Sacrifice and Crisis in the Work of René Girard /; 19 Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity as Seen Through Artistic Representations of the Sacrifice of Isaac /; 20 ‘From the Blood of My Heart’: Christian Iconography in the Response of Israeli Artists to the Holocaust /; 21 The Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women’s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain /; 22 On Sacrifices, Victims, and Perpetrators: Israel’s New Historians, Critical Artists, and Zionist Historiography /; 23 Tarkovsky’s Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ /; Index of Names --; Index of Sources.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004284230
• ISSN: 1388-2074
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alberdina Houtman [and three others].

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.