UID:
edocfu_9959243189402883
Format:
1 online resource (379 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-39865-9
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9786611398651
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90-474-0940-X
Series Statement:
Numen book series, v. 112
Content:
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian traditions as well as the debates about euthanasia and death penalty in the Western world.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material /
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Ritual Killing and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East /
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Human Sacrifice in Greek Culture /
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The Theological Implications of Child in and beyond the Biblical Context in Relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 /
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The First-Born between Sacrifice and Redemption in the Hebrew Bible /
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“They Burn Their Sons and Daughters. That Was No Command of Mine” (Jer 7:31) /
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Molek: Dead or Alive? /
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Jewish Views of Human Sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman Period /
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Gender Difference and the Rabbis /
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Human Sacrifice and Pauline Christology /
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The Collective Suicides in the Persecutions of 1096 as Sacrificial Acts /
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God’s Sacrifice of Himself as a Man /
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Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling,” the Sacrifice of Isaac, and the Critique of Christendom /
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“Euthanasia” and Experiments on Human Beings [Part I: “Euthanasia”] (1947) /
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Still Ransoming the First-Born Sons? /
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Slaughter and Innocence: The Rhetoric of Sacrifice in Contemporary Arguments Supporting the Death Penalty /
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Subjects /
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References /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-15085-4
Language:
English
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