Ancient Mediterranean sacrifice /
Knust, Jennifer Wright,1966-
Várhelyi, Zsuzsanna.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references 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 / William 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 : sacrifice and rational worship (I-II CE) / Laura Nasrallah -- The end of public sacrifice, or, Changing definitions of sacrifice in the post Constantinian world? / Michele R. Salzman -- The theology of animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world : origins and developments / James Rives -- Rejecting sacrifice in imperial times : the treatise on sacrifice / 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 Jacobs -- Confounding blood : Jewish narratives of sacrifice and violence in late antiquity / Raanan Boustan.
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