Blood for thought : the reinvention of sacrifice in early rabbinic literature / Mira Balberg.

Author
Balberg, Mira, 1978- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description
1 online resource (xi, 287 pages)

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"Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, reinventing them as a site through which to negotiate intellectual, cultural, and religious trends and practices in their surrounding world. Rather than viewing the rabbinic project as an attempt to generate a nonsacrificial version of Judaism, she argues that the rabbis developed a new sacrificial Jewish tradition altogether, consisting of not merely substitutes to sacrifice but elaborate practical manuals that redefined the processes themselves, radically transforming the meanings of sacrifice, its efficacy, and its value."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Introduction
  • Missing persons
  • The work of blood
  • Sacrifice as one
  • Three hundred passovers
  • Ordinary miracles
  • Conclusion: the end of sacrifice, revisited.
ISBN
  • 9780520968660 ((electronic book))
  • 0520968662 ((electronic book))
LCCN
2017015219
OCLC
980346871
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