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Title Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition / edited by Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, K.F. Diethard Römheld ; in association with Lance Lazar.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 112
Studies in the history of religions ; 112.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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Subject Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. New Testament.
Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion.
Jesus Christ.
Crucifixion.
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
Jésus-Christ -- Crucifiement.
Bible. A.T. -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bible. New Testament -- Critique, interprétation, etc.
Bibel.
Child sacrifice in the Bible.
Child sacrifice in the Bible.
Child sacrifice -- Judaism.
Child sacrifice.
Judaism.
Child sacrifice -- Christianity.
Christianity.
Euthanasia.
Euthanasia.
Capital punishment.
Capital punishment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Finsterbusch, Karin.
Lange, Armin, 1961-
Römheld, Diethard.
Other Form: Print version: Human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian tradition. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2006051652 (OCoLC)71552514
ISBN 9789047409403 (electronic book)
904740940X (electronic book)
9004150854 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789004150850