The Social Meanings of Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible A Study of Four Writings 1st Edition by David Janzen 3110181584 9783110181586

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ISBN 10: 3110181584 

ISBN 13: 9783110181586

Author: David Janzen

This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice. All rituals, including sacrifice, communicate social beliefs and morality, but these cannot be determined outside of a study of the social context. Thus, there is no single explanation for sacrifice – such as those advanced by René Girard or Walter Burkert or late-19th and early-20th century scholars. The book then examines four different writings in the Hebrew Bible – the Priestly Writing, the Deuteronomistic History, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles – to demonstrate how different social origins result in different social meanings of sacrifice.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction
1.1. The Meaning of Sacrifice
1.2. Outline of the Book

2. The Rhetorics of Ritual
2.1. Introduction: Ritual and Sacrifice
2.2. The Contexts of Ritual
2.3. Ritual’s Formality and its Social Message
2.4. Ritual as Rhetoric
2.5. The Variety of Ritual’s Rhetorical Strategies
2.6. Conclusion

3. Ritual and Ritualized Morality
3.1. Introduction: Ritualized Morality and the Problem of Defining Ritual
3.2. Strategies of Practice: Ritual and Daily Life
3.3. Ritual Exegesis of Practice
3.4. Conclusion

4. Theology, Worldview, and Ideology
4.1. Introduction: The Concept of Ideology within Biblical Studies
4.2. The Inevitability of Ritual Ideology

5. The Study of Sacrifice in Biblical Studies
5.1. Sacrifice and Meaning in Biblical Studies
5.2. Universal Theories of Sacrifice
5.3. The Rhetorics of Sacrifice

6. Sacrifice in the Priestly Writing
6.1. Introduction: The Nature of P
6.2. P from Creation to Sinai
6.3. P at Sinai: Sacrifice and a Worldview of Holiness and Purity
6.4. The Social Meanings of Sacrifice in P
6.5. Conclusion: The Narrative of P

7. Sacrifice and the King in the Deuteronomistic History
7.1. Introduction: A Cultic History
7.2. The Deuteronomistic History as a Product of the Exile
7.3. Sacrifice and Obedience in the Deuteronomistic History
7.4. Conclusion: The King as Custodian of Sacrifice

8. Perfect Slaughter: Sacrifice as Warning and Promise in the Deuteronomistic History
8.1. Introduction
8.2. ḥrm and Sacrifice as Promise
8.3. Sacrifice as Warning
8.4. Conclusion: Sacrifice in Dtr and P

9. Sacrifice as Cultic Expression of the Law: Social and Geographic Separation in Ezra-Nehemiah
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Unity and Authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah
9.3. The Law and the Peoples
9.4. Sacrifice and the Law
9.5. Conclusion

10. Rest, Peace, and Quiet: Sacrifice in Chronicles
10.1. Introduction: Sacrifice and Obedience in Chronicles
10.2. Integrity and Date of Chronicles
10.3. The Sacrifices: ḥsd, Praise, and Thanksgiving
10.4. ḥsd, Peace, and the Chronicler’s Worldview
10.4. Conclusion: Sacrifice, Quietism, and the Future of Israel in Chronicles

11. Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the People
11.1. Summary of the Social Meanings of Sacrifice in the Writings
11.2. Shulgi’s Reformation of Sacrifice and its Social Meaning
11.3. Sacrifice, God, and the People in the Biblical Writings

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