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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815138503321

Autore

Janzen David <1968->

Titolo

The social meanings of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible : a study of four writings / / David Janzen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

3-11-090481-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Collana

Beihefte zur zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft ; ; Bd. 344

Classificazione

BC 6920

Disciplina

296.4/92

Soggetti

Sacrifice - Biblical teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The rhetorics of ritual -- Ritual and ritualized morality -- Theology, worldview, and ideology -- The study of sacrifice in biblical studies -- Sacrifice in the priestly writing -- Sacrifice and the king in the Deuteronomistic history -- Perfect slaughter : sacrifice as warning and promise in the Deuteronomistic history  -- Sacrifice as cultic expression of the law : social and geographic separation in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Rest, peace, and quiet : sacrifice in Chronicles -- Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the people.

Sommario/riassunto

Ritualopfer in der Hebräischen Bibel aus der Sicht der anthropologischen Theorie, mit der Schlussfolgerung, dass Opfern unterschiedliche soziale Güter in unterschiedlichen biblischen Schriften kommuniziert.

Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible - a cultural anthropological approach Ritual sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible studied through the lens of anthropological theory; concluding that sacrifice communicates different social goods in different biblical writings.