Sacrifice, scripture, and substitution
Subtitle: readings in ancient Judaism and Christianity
By: edited by Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart
Contributors: Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Meeting
Series: Christianity and Judaism in antiquity
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780268020385
Subjects: Bible; Judaism; Biblical teaching; Congresses; Sacrifice; Criticism, interpretation; Christianity
Notes: "First delivered as papers in June 2002 at Purdue University in connection with the annual meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Substitutive reading : an introduction to Girardian thinking, its reception in biblical studies, and this volume / Sandor Goodhart and Ann W. Astell; title: Mimesis, sacrifice, and the Bible : a conversation with Sandor Goodhart / Renø Girard; title: Bloody logic : the biblical economy of sacrificial substitution and its eucharistic implications / Thomas Ryba; title: Aspects of the transformation of sacrifice in Judaism / Michael Fishbane; title: The Eucharist and the mimesis of sacrifice / Bruce Chilton; title: Eucharistic origins : from the New Testament to the liturgies of the golden age / Robert Daly; title: Life after death : violence, martyrdom, and academic life in western religions / Alan F. Segal; title: Anti-Judaism, Josephus, and the Hellenistic-Roman period / Louis H. Feldman; title: Beyond anti-Judaism : Louis Feldman and the 'lachrymose version' of Jewish history / Erich S. Gruen; title: Mimesis, scapegoating, and philo-semitism : reading Feldman and Girard / Stuart D. Robertson; title: Creation and akedah : blessing and sacrifice in the Hebrew scriptures / Matthew Pattillo; title: The unbinding of Isaac / Steven Stern; title: Binding and blessing : a response to Stern and Pattillo / Sandor Goodhart; title: Mimesis, sacrifice, and the wisdom of Job / Chris Allen Carter; title: The expulsion of complaint from early Jewish worship / William Morrow; title: The Book of Job and the problem of evil : reading from theodicy to the ethical / Sandor Goodhart; title: Luke and the opportune time : reading the temptation story as preface to kingdom and prologue to passion / William Martin Aiken; title: A gospel that preaches nonviolence and yet provokes violence / Gørard Rossø; title: 'Exilic' identities, the Samaritans, and the 'Satan' of John / Ann W. Astell; title: Aristotle's 'natural slaves' and Colossae's unnatural 'Scythians' : a generative exegesis of Colossians 3:11 / Christopher S. Morrissey; title: Is an anti-sacrificial reading of Hebrews plausible? / Poong-In Lee; title: Hermeneutics, exegesis, and Renø Girard : a response to Christopher Morrissey and Poong-in Lee / Anthony Bartlett.