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This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
Author : E. O. James
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258899677
This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
Author : Brenda Ralph Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0752494821
The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
Author : Brannon Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 100906312X
Islam is the only biblical religion that still practices animal sacrifice. Indeed, every year more than a million animals are shipped to Mecca from all over the world to be slaughtered during the Muslim Hajj. This multi-disciplinary volume is the first to examine the physical foundations of this practice and the significance of the ritual. Brannon Wheeler uses both textual analysis and various types of material evidence to gain insight into the role of animal sacrifice in Islam. He provides a 'thick description' of the elaborate camel sacrifice performed by Muhammad, which serves as the model for future Hajj sacrifices. Wheeler integrates biblical and classical Arabic sources with evidence from zooarchaeology and the rock art of ancient Arabia to gain insight into an event that reportedly occurred 1400 years ago. His book encourages a more nuanced and expansive conception of “sacrifice” in the history of religion.
Author : Anne Porter
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1575066769
What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.
Author : Edwin Oliver James
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042918436
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Author : Liane M. Feldman
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161596366
The sacrificial instructions and purity laws in Leviticus have often been seen as later or secondary additions to an originally sparse Priestly narrative. In this volume, Liane M. Feldman argues that the ritual and narrative elements of the Pentateuchal Priestly source are mutually dependent, and that the internal logic and structure of the Priestly narrative makes sense only when they are read together. Bringing together insights from the fields of ritual theory and narratology, the author argues that the ritual materials in Leviticus should be understood and analyzed as literature. At the core of her study is the assertion that these sacrificial instructions and purity laws form the backbone of the Priestly story world, and that when these materials are read within their broader narrative context, the Priestly narrative is first and foremost a story about the origins and purpose of sacrifice.
Author : Nigel Davies
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : M.-Z. Petropoulou
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0199218544
A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity between 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice, and the reasons why they ultimately rejected it.
Author : Edwin Oliver James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN :