The Social Meanings of Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible: A Study of Four WritingsWalter de Gruyter, 2004 - 300 pages This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice. All rituals, including sacrifice, communicate social beliefs and morality, but these cannot be determined outside of a study of the social context. Thus, there is no single explanation for sacrifice - such as those advanced by René Girard or Walter Burkert or late-19th and early-20th century scholars. The book then examines four different writings in the Hebrew Bible - the Priestly Writing, the Deuteronomistic History, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles - to demonstrate how different social origins result in different social meanings of sacrifice. |
Contents
Ritual and Ritualized Morality | 36 |
Theology Worldview and Ideology | 57 |
The Study of Sacrifice in Biblical Studies | 67 |
Sacrifice in the Priestly Writing | 88 |
Sacrifice and the King in the Deuteronomistic History | 120 |
88 | 157 |
Sacrifice as Warning and Promise in | 160 |
Sacrifice in Chronicles | 209 |
Sacrifice God and the People | 243 |
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