Ancient Mediterranean sacrifice
By: edited by Jennifer Wright Knust and Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780199738960
Subjects: Religion; Sacrifice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The religion of plant and animal offerings versus the religion of meanings, essences, and textual mysteries / Stanley Stowers; title: Contesting the meaning of animal sacrifice / Daniel Ullucci; title: Egyptian religion and the problem of the category sacrifice / David Frankfurter; title: Jewish sacrifice : its nature and function / William Gilders; title: Symbol, function, theology, and morality in the study of priestly ritual / Jonathan Klawans; title: Political murder and sacrifice : from Roman Republic to Empire / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi; title: The embarrassment of blood : sacrifice and rational worship (I-II CE) / Laura Nasrallah; title: The end of public sacrifice, or, Changing definitions of sacrifice in the post Constantinian world? / Michele R. Salzman; title: The theology of animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world : origins and developments / James Rives; title: Rejecting sacrifice in imperial times : the treatise on sacrifice / Fritz Graf; title: Bonds of flesh and blood : Porphyry, animal sacrifice, and empire / Philippa Townsend; title: Don't cry over spilled blood / Kathryn McClymond; title: Passing : Jesus' circumcision and strategic self-sacrifice / Andrew Jacobs; title: Confounding blood : Jewish narratives of sacrifice and violence in late antiquity / Raanan Boustan.