social meanings of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: a study of four writings
By: David Janzen.
Series: Beihefte zur zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft -- Bd. 344; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- 344.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Sacrifice -- Biblical teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The rhetorics of ritual; value: Ritual and ritualized morality; value: Theology, worldview, and ideology; value: The study of sacrifice in biblical studies; value: Sacrifice in the priestly writing; value: Sacrifice and the king in the Deuteronomistic history; value: Perfect slaughter : sacrifice as warning and promise in the Deuteronomistic history; value: Sacrifice as cultic expression of the law : social and geographic separation in Ezra-Nehemiah; value: Rest, peace, and quiet : sacrifice in Chronicles; value: Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the people.