Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition (2007 Finsterbusch, Lange, Römheld), edited volume

Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition (2007) is a volume edited by Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and Diethard Römheld.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2007.

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 Benzenhöfer and Wilhelm Rimpau / Viktor von Weizsäcker -- 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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