Blood for Thought

The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature

Mira Balberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40141-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Mira Balberg is Professor of History and David Goodblatt Endowed Chair in Ancient Jewish Civilization at the University of California, San Diego. Her most recent book is Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Missing Persons
2. Th e Work of Blood
3. Sacrifice as One
4. Th ree Hundred Passovers
5. Ordinary Miracles

Conclusion: The End of Sacrifice, Revisited
Bibliography
Subject Index
Source Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2024
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-520-40141-7 / 0520401417
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40141-9 / 9780520401419
Zustand	Neuware