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Ancient Mediterranean sacrifice / edited by Jennifer Wright Knust and Zsuzsanna Várhelyi.

Contributor(s): Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966- | Várhelyi, Zsuzsanna
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199738960 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199738963 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Sacrifice -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- ReligionDDC classification: 203/.4 LOC classification: BL687 | .A53 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-324) and index.
Contents:
The religion of plant and animal offerings versus the religion of meanings, essences, and textual mysteries / Stanley Stowers -- Contesting the meaning of animal sacrifice / Daniel Ullucci -- Egyptian religion and the problem of the category "sacrifice" / David Frankfurter -- Jewish sacrifice : its nature and function (according to Philo) / William K. Gilders -- Symbol, function, theology, and morality in the study of priestly ritual / Jonathan Klawans -- Political murder and sacrifice : from Roman Republic to Empire / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi -- The embarrassment of blood : early Christians and others on sacrifice, war, and rational worship / Laura Nasrallah -- The end of public sacrifice : changing definitions of sacrifice in post-Constantinian Rome and Italy / Michele Renee Salzman -- The theology of animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world : origins and developments / James B. Rives -- A satirist's sacrifices : Lucian's On sacrifeces and the the contestation of religious traditions / Fritz Graf -- Bonds of flesh and blood : Porphyry, animal sacrifice, and empire / Philippa Townsend -- Don't cry over spilled blood / Kathryn McClymond -- Passing : Jesus' circumcision and strategic self-sacrifice / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Confounding blood : Jewish narratives of sacrifice and violence in late antiquity / Raanan S. Boustan.

"This volume originated in the conference "What the gods demand : blood sacrifice in Mediterranean antiquity," held at Boston University (BU) in November 2008,..." -- Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-324) and index.

The religion of plant and animal offerings versus the religion of meanings, essences, and textual mysteries / Stanley Stowers -- Contesting the meaning of animal sacrifice / Daniel Ullucci -- Egyptian religion and the problem of the category "sacrifice" / David Frankfurter -- Jewish sacrifice : its nature and function (according to Philo) / William K. Gilders -- Symbol, function, theology, and morality in the study of priestly ritual / Jonathan Klawans -- Political murder and sacrifice : from Roman Republic to Empire / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi -- The embarrassment of blood : early Christians and others on sacrifice, war, and rational worship / Laura Nasrallah -- The end of public sacrifice : changing definitions of sacrifice in post-Constantinian Rome and Italy / Michele Renee Salzman -- The theology of animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world : origins and developments / James B. Rives -- A satirist's sacrifices : Lucian's On sacrifeces and the the contestation of religious traditions / Fritz Graf -- Bonds of flesh and blood : Porphyry, animal sacrifice, and empire / Philippa Townsend -- Don't cry over spilled blood / Kathryn McClymond -- Passing : Jesus' circumcision and strategic self-sacrifice / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Confounding blood : Jewish narratives of sacrifice and violence in late antiquity / Raanan S. Boustan.

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