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Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition [electronic resource] / edited by Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, K.F. Diethard R�omheld ; in association with Lance Lazar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions ; 112.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 365 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9789047409403 (electronic bk.)
  • 904740940X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition.DDC classification:
  • 203/.42 22
LOC classification:
  • BS680.C45 H86 2007
Other classification:
  • 11.09
Online resources:
Contents:
Ritual killing and sacrifice in the ancient Near East / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Human sacrifice in Greek culture / Gabriele Weiler -- The theological implications of child sacrifice in and beyond the biblical context in relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 / Michaela Bauks -- The first-born between sacrifice and redemption in the Hebrew Bible / Karin Finsterbusch -- "They burn their sons and daughters. That was no command of mine" (Jer 7:31) : child sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible and in the Deuteronomistic Jeremiah redaction / Armin Lange -- Molek : dead or alive? : the meaning and derivation of mlk and [mlkh (transliteration)] / Bennie H. Reynolds -- Jewish views of human sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman period / Katell Berthelot -- Gender difference and the rabbis : Bat Yiftah as human sacrifice / Tal Ilan -- Human sacrifice and Pauline christology / Peter Lampe -- The collective suicides in the persecutions of 1096 as sacrificial acts / Rainer Walz -- God's sacrifice of himself as a man : Anselm of Canterbury's Cur deus homo / Jasper Hopkins -- Kierkegaard's "fear and trembling," the sacrifice of Isaac, and the critique of Christendom / Christopher Roberts -- "Euthanasia" and experiments on human beings [part I : "euthanasia"] (1947) : with an introduction / Udo Benzenh�ofer and Wilhelm Rimpau / Viktor von Weizs�acker -- Still ransoming the first-born sons? : Pidyon Habben and its survival in the Jewish tradition / Yaakov Ariel -- Slaughter and innocence : the rhetoric of sacrifice in contemporary arguments supporting the death penalty / Randall Styers.
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Ritual killing and sacrifice in the ancient Near East / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Human sacrifice in Greek culture / Gabriele Weiler -- The theological implications of child sacrifice in and beyond the biblical context in relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 / Michaela Bauks -- The first-born between sacrifice and redemption in the Hebrew Bible / Karin Finsterbusch -- "They burn their sons and daughters. That was no command of mine" (Jer 7:31) : child sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible and in the Deuteronomistic Jeremiah redaction / Armin Lange -- Molek : dead or alive? : the meaning and derivation of mlk and [mlkh (transliteration)] / Bennie H. Reynolds -- Jewish views of human sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman period / Katell Berthelot -- Gender difference and the rabbis : Bat Yiftah as human sacrifice / Tal Ilan -- Human sacrifice and Pauline christology / Peter Lampe -- The collective suicides in the persecutions of 1096 as sacrificial acts / Rainer Walz -- God's sacrifice of himself as a man : Anselm of Canterbury's Cur deus homo / Jasper Hopkins -- Kierkegaard's "fear and trembling," the sacrifice of Isaac, and the critique of Christendom / Christopher Roberts -- "Euthanasia" and experiments on human beings [part I : "euthanasia"] (1947) : with an introduction / Udo Benzenh�ofer and Wilhelm Rimpau / Viktor von Weizs�acker -- Still ransoming the first-born sons? : Pidyon Habben and its survival in the Jewish tradition / Yaakov Ariel -- Slaughter and innocence : the rhetoric of sacrifice in contemporary arguments supporting the death penalty / Randall Styers.

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