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Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives
Author | : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2023-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350236738 |
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Examining the theme of child sacrifice as a psychological challenge, this book applies a unique approach to religious ideas by looking at beliefs and practices that are considered deviant, but also make up part of mainstream religious discourse in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Ancient religious mythology, which survives through living traditions and transmitted narratives, rituals, and writings, is filled with violent stories, often involving the targeting of children as ritual victims. Christianity offers Abraham's sacrifice and assures us that the “only begotten son” has died, and then been resurrected. This version of the sacrifice myth has dominated the West. It is celebrated in an act of fantasy cannibalism, in which the believers share the divine son's flesh and blood. This book makes the connection between Satanism stories in the 1980s, the Blood Libel in Europe, The Eucharist, and Eastern Mediterranean narratives of child sacrifice.
Interpreting Child Sacrifice Narratives
Author | : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2023-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350236745 |
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Examining the theme of child sacrifice as a psychological challenge, this book applies a unique approach to religious ideas by looking at beliefs and practices that are considered deviant, but also make up part of mainstream religious discourse in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Ancient religious mythology, which survives through living traditions and transmitted narratives, rituals, and writings, is filled with violent stories, often involving the targeting of children as ritual victims. Christianity offers Abraham's sacrifice and assures us that the “only begotten son” has died, and then been resurrected. This version of the sacrifice myth has dominated the West. It is celebrated in an act of fantasy cannibalism, in which the believers share the divine son's flesh and blood. This book makes the connection between Satanism stories in the 1980s, the Blood Libel in Europe, The Eucharist, and Eastern Mediterranean narratives of child sacrifice.
The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son
Author | : Jon D. Levenson |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300065116 |
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"The near sacrifice and miraculous restoration of a beloved son is a central but largely overlooked theme in both Judaism and Christianity. This book explores how this notion of child sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond between the two religions."--
Not Sparing the Child Human Sacrifice in the Ancient World and Beyond
Author | : Daphna Arbel,Paul C. Burns,J.R.C. Cousland,Richard Menkis,Dietmar Neufeld |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780567352637 |
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The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and its implications continue to be topics that fire the popular imagination and engender scholarly discussion and controversy. This volume provides balanced and judicious treatments of the various facets of these topics from a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It provides nuanced examinations of ancient ritual, exploring the various meanings that human sacrifice held for antiquity, and examines its varied repercussions up into the modern world. The book explores evidence to shed new light on the origins of the rite, to whom these sacrifices were offered, and by whom they were performed. It presents fresh insights into the social and religious meanings of this practice in its varied biblical landscape and ancient contexts, and demonstrates how human sacrifice has captured the imagination of later writers who have employed it in diverse cultural and theological discourses to convey their own views and ideologies. It provides valuable perspectives for understanding key cultural, theological and ideological dimensions, such as the sacrifice of Christ, scapegoating,self-sacrifice and martyrdom in post-biblical and modern times.
Why Jephthah s Daughter Weeps
Author | : Margaret Murray Talbot |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004508170 |
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Why does Jephthah’s daughter weep? This new child-oriented reading reveals that a complex mix of emotional, familial, socio-cultural, and sexual consequences of menarche and menstruation lies behind her tears. There’s more blood flowing in this Judges story than you’ve likely imagined!
Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Author | : Heath D. Dewrell |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781646022014 |
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Among the many religious acts condemned in the Hebrew Bible, child sacrifice stands out as particularly horrifying. The idea that any group of people would willingly sacrifice their own children to their god(s) is so contrary to modern moral sensibilities that it is difficult to imagine that such a practice could have ever existed. Nonetheless, the existence of biblical condemnation of these rites attests to the fact that some ancient Israelites in fact did sacrifice their children. Indeed, a close reading of the evidence—biblical, archaeological, epigraphic, etc.—indicates that there are at least three different types of Israelite child sacrifice, each with its own history, purpose, and function. In addition to examining the historical reality of Israelite child sacrifice, Dewrell’s study also explores the biblical rhetoric condemning the practice. While nearly every tradition preserved in the Hebrew Bible rejects child sacrifice as abominable to Yahweh, the rhetorical strategies employed by the biblical writers vary to a surprising degree. Thus, even in arguing against the practice of child sacrifice, the biblical writers themselves often disagreed concerning why Yahweh condemned the rites and why they came to exist in the first place.
Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism
Author | : Caroline T. Schroeder |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107156876 |
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Early Christian asceticism emphasized renunciation of family, while Egyptian monks in late antiquity cared for children.
Bridges to Understanding Children s Museums
Author | : Nina Freedlander Gibans |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Children's museums |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924101941486 |
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Documents the needs, interests and concerns of major stakeholders in the children's museum movement.