Course Bibliography:
(For this bibliography arranged by period, culture or contents, see the
Topical Bibliography on Sacrifice)
Anthologies:
- Altar and Sacrifice: The Proceedings of the Third International
Colloquium on the Liturgy (1St-3Rd October 1997). Saint Austin
Press, 1999.
- The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks. Ed. M. Detienne
and J.-P. Vernant. Tr. P. Wissig. Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1989 (French
1979).
- Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East. Ed. J. Quaegebeur.
Leuven: Peeters, 1993.
- Sacrifice in Religious Experience. Ed. Albert I. Baumgarten,
Leiden: Brill, 2002.
- Understanding Religious Sacrifice: a Reader. Ed. Jeffrey
Carter. London: Continuum, 2003.
Monographs & articles:
- Abusch, Tzvi. “Sacrifice in Mesopotamia.” In Sacrifice
in Religious Experience, 39-48.
- Anderson, Gary A. “Sacrifice and Sacrificial Offerings (OT).” In Anchor
Bible Dictionary, 5:870-86.
- Anderson, Gary A. Sacrifices and Offerings in Ancient Israel:
Studies in Their Social and Political Importance. HSM. Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1987.
- Arnold, Philip P. Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation
of Tlalocan. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1999.
- Arnould, Elisabeth. “The Impossible Sacrifice of Poetry: Bataille
and the Nancian Critique of Sacrifice.” Diacritics 26.2
(1996) 86-96.
- Attridge, Harold W. and Robert A. Oden, Jr. Philo of Byblos: The
Phoenician History. CBQMS 9. Washington: Catholic Biblical Association,
1981.
- Bataille, Georges. Theory of Religion. Tr. R. Hurley. New
York: Zone, 1992 (1948).
- Beckwith, Roger T. and Martin J. Selman (eds). Sacrifice
in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995.
- Belayche, Nicole. “Sacrifice and Theory of Sacrifice During
the ‘Pagan Reaction’: Julian the Emperor.” In Sacrifice
in Religious Experience, 101-126.
- Bellah, Robert N. "Civil Religion in America." Beyond Belief:
Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World. New York: Harper
& Row, 1970. Pp. 168-89.
- Bergen, Wesley J. Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture.
JSOTSup 417. London: T&T Clark, 2005.
- Bergmann, Martin S. In the Shadow of Moloch : The Sacrifice
of Children and Its Impact on Western Religions. New York:
Columbia U.P., 1992.
- Berquist, Birgitta. “Bronze Age Sacrificial Koine in the Eastern
Mediterranean? A Study of Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East,”
in Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East, 11-43
- Boehm, Omri. “Child Sacrifice, Ethical Responsibility and the
Existence of the People of Israel.” Vetus Testamentum 54
(2004) 145-56.
- Boyarin, Daniel. Dying for God. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1999.
- Brandt, Sigrid. Opfer als Gedächtnis: Auf dem Weg zu einer
befreienden theologischen Rede von Opfer. Münster: LIT, 2001.
- Bremer, Jan. “Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece.” Harvard
Studies in Classical Philology 87 (1983) 299-320.
- Bremer, Tom. “Sacrificial Slaughter and Dressing Up: Gender Articulations
in Muslim Rituals.” Religious Studies Review 22, no. 3 (1996):
209-13.
- Brichto, H. “On Slaughter and Sacrifice, Blood and Atonement.”
Hebrew Union College Annual 58 (1976) 1-17.
- Brown, Shelby. Late Carthaginian child sacrifice and sacrificial
monuments in their Mediterranean context. ASOR monograph series
3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.
- Burkert, Walter, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith, Violent Origins:
Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Ed. Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly.
Palo Alto: Stanford, 1987.
- Burkert, Walter. Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in
Early Religions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. 34-55,
129-155.
- Burkert, Walter. Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient
Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Berkeley: U. of California, 1983.
- Carrasco, David L. City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the
Role of Violence in Civilization. Beacon, 1999.
- Cartry, M. and L. De Heusch (eds.). Systèmes de pensée
en Afrique noire, Cahier 2: Le Sacrifice I (1976); Cahier 3: Le
Sacrifice 2 (1978); Cahier 4: Le Sacrifice 3 (1979); Cahier 5: Le Sacrifice
4 (1981); Cahier 6: Le Sacrifice 5 (1983). Le'Ecole Pratique des hautes
Etudes Section des Sciences Religiouses. Paris.
- Chazan, Robert. European Jewry and the First Crusade. Berkeley:
U. of California, 1987.
- Chilton, Bruce. The Temple of Jesus: His Sacrificial Program Within
a Cultural History of Sacrifice. University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1992.
- Combs-Shilling, M. Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality
and Sacrifice. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
- Dahm, Ulrike. Opferkult und Priestertum in Alt-Israel: Ein kultur-
und religionswissenschaftlicher Beitrag. BZAW 327. Berlin: De Gruyter,
2003.
- Daly, Robert. “Is Christianity Sacrificial or Antisacrificial?”
Religion 27 (1997) 231-43.
- Daly, Robert. “Sacrifice,” in The New Dictionary of Theology
- Daly, Robert. “The Power of Sacrifice in Ancient Judaism and Christianity,”
Journal of Ritual Studies 4/2 (1990): 181-98.
- Delaney, Carol. Abraham on Trial: the Social Legacy of Biblical
Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
- Derrida, Jacques, “Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know),”
in The Gift of Death. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996.
- Detienne, Marcel. "Culinary Practices and the Spirit of Sacrifice."
In Cuisine of Sacrifice, 1-20.
- Detienne, Marcel. "The Violence of Wellborn Ladies: Women in the
Thesmophoria." In Cuisine of Sacrifice, 129-147.
- Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico.
Tr. A. P. Maudslay. New York: Farrer, Straus & Cudahy.
- Draper, Richard D. "Sacrifice in Biblical Times." Encyclopedia
of Mormonism. Ed. D. H. Ludlow. New York: Macmillan, 1992. 3:1248-49.
- Drexler, J. Die Illusion des Opfers. Ein wissenschaftlicher Überblick
über die wichtigsten Opftertheorien ausgehen vom deleuzianischen
Polyperspektivismusmodell. Münchener Ethnologische Abhandlungen
12. Munich, 1993.
- Durand, J.-L. Sacrifice et Labeur en Grèce Ancienne: Essai
d’Anthropologie Religieuse. Editions de la Decouverte, 1986.
- Eberhart, Christian. Studien zur Bedeutung der Opfer im Alten
Testament: Die Signifikanz von Blut- und Verbrennungsriten im kultischen
Raum. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukircherner, 2002.
- Eckstein, A. M. "Human sacrifice and fear of military disaster
in Republican Rome." American Journal of Ancient History 7 (1982)
69-95.
- Ehrenreich, Barbara. Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions
of War. New York: Metropolitan, 1997.
- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology
of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1990.
- Elliger, Karl. “Zur Analyse des Sündopfergesetzes.” In Verbannung
und Heimkehr: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Theologie Israels im
6. und 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Edited by A. Kuschke. Tübingen:
Mohr (Siebeck), 1961. 39-50.
- Evans-Ptichard, Edward E. “The Meaning of Sacrifice Among the
Nuer.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 84
(1954), 21-33; reprinted in Understanding Religious Sacrifice,
192-209.
- Frantzen, Allen J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great
War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.
Abridged edition. New York: Macmillan, 1922, 1960.
- Freud, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo: Resemblences between the Psychic
Lives of Savages and Neurotics. Tr. A. A. Brill. New York: Vintage,
1918.
- Garber, Zev & Bruce Zuckerman. "Why do we call the Holocaust
'The Holocaust'?" In Garber, Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide.
Lanham: UPA, 1994. 51-66.
- Georgourdi, Stella. "Sanctified Slaughter in Modern Greece: the 'Kourbania'
of the Saints." In Cuisine of Sacrifice, 183-203.
- Giegerich, Wolfgang. “Killings:
Psychology’s Platonism and the Missing Link to Reality.” Spring 54
(1993), 5-18.
- Giegerich, Wolfgang. “Once
More the Reality/Irreality Issue: A Reply to Hillman’s Reply.” Online
at http://www.rubedo.psc.br/reply.htm.
- Giegerich, Wolfgang. Tötungen:
Gewalt aus der Seele. Frankfurt: Lang, 1994.
- Gilders, William K. Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning
and Power. Johns Hopkins UP, 2004.
- Girard, René. Violence and the Sacred. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins, 1977 (French 1972).
- Girard, René. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the
World. Stanford: Stanford U.P., 1987 (French 1978).
- Girard, René. The Scapegoat. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins,
1986 (French 1982).
- Girard, René. The Girard reader. New York : Crossroad,
1996.
- Grant, Robert M. Early Christians & Animals. New
York: Routledge, 1999.
- Gray, George Buchanan. Sacrifice in the Old Testament: Its Theory
and Practice. First printed, 1925. Reprint with introduction by
Baruch A. Levine. New York: Ktav, 1971.
- Green, A.R.W. The Roles of Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Near
East. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1975.
- Green, Miranda. Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age
and Roman Europe. Arcadia, 2001.
- Hallo, W. W. “The Origins of the Sacrificial Cult: New Evidence
from Mesopotamia and Israel.” In P.D. Miller, Jr., Ancient
Israelite Religion. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. 3-14.
- Hammoudi, Abdellah (Tr. Paula Wissing). The Victim and Its Masks
: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Chicago:
U. of Chicago, 1993.
- Haran, Menahem. Temples and Temple Service in Ancient Israel:
An Inquiry Into the Character of Cult Phenomena and the Historical Setting
of the Priestly School. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
- Heesterman, J. C. The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient
Indian Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- Heider, George C. The Cult of Molek: A Reassessment. JSOTSup.
Sheffield: JSOT, 1985.
- Heinsohn, Gunnar. “The Rise of Blood Sacrifice and Priest-Kingship
in Mesopotamia: A “Cosmic Decree”?.” Religion 22 (1992): 109
- 134.
- Henninger, Joseph. “Sacrifice.” In Encyclopedia of Religion,
544-57.
- Herz, Peter. “Sacrifice and Sacrificial Ceremonies in the Roman
Imperial Army.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience,
81-100.
- Heusch, Luc de. Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach.
Tr. Linda O’Brian and Alice Morton. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1985.
- Heyman, George P. “The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian
Discourses in Conflict.” Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University,
2004.
- Hillman, James. “Once More into the Fray: A Response to Wolfgang
Giegerich’s ‘Killings’.” Spring 56
(1994), 1-18.
- Hubert, Henri and Marcel Mauss. Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function.
Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1964 (French original, 1898).
- James, E. O. Origins of Sacrifice: A Study in Comparative Religion.
London: Murray, 1933.
- Jameson, Michael H. "Sacrifice and Ritual: Greece." Civilizations
of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. Ed. M. Grant &
R. Kitzinger. New York: Scribner's, 1988. 2:959-79.
- Jamison, Stephanie W. Sacrificed Wife, Sacrificer’s Wife: Women,
Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
- Jankowsi, Bernd and Neumann-Gorsolke, Ute. “Motive und Materialien.”
In Gefährten und Feinde des Menschen. Das Tier in der Lebenswelt
des alten Israel. Ed. Bernd Janowski, et al. Neukirchen-Vluyn:
Neukirchener, 1993.
- Janzen, David. The Social Meanings of Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible:
A Study of Four Writings. BZAW 344. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004.
- Jay, Nancy. “Sacrifice, Descent and the Patriarchs.” Vetus Testamentum
38 (1988): 52-70.
- Jay, Nancy. Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion,
and Paternity. Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1992.
- Jong, Albert de. “Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Zoroastrianism:
A Ritual and Its Interpretations.” In Sacrifice in Religious
Experience, 127-148.
- Kessler, Edward. Bound By the Bible: Jews, Christians and the
Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Kitts, Margo. “Sacrificial Violence in the Iliad.” Journal
of Ritual Studies 16/1 (2002) 19-39.
- Klawans, Jonathan. “Pure Violence: Sacrifice and Defilement
in Ancient Israel.” Harvard Theological Review 94/2 (2001),
133-55.
- Klawans, Jonathan. Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and
Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2005.
- Koester, Helmut. “Jesus the Victim.” Journal of Biblical Literature
111 (1992): 3-15.
- Kunin, Seth Daniel. “The Death of Isaac: Structuralist Analysis
of Genesis 22.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
64 (1994): 57-81.
- Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent
Faith. New York: Anchor, 2003.
- Lambert, Wilfred G. “Donations of Food and Drink to the Gods
in Ancient Mesopotamia.” In Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near
East, 191-201.
- Levenson, Jon. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son:
The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New
Haven: Yale, 1993.
- Lincoln, Bruce. “Sacrificial Ideology and Indo-European Society.”
Death, War and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice. Chicago:
U Chicago, 1991. 167-75.
- Lincoln, Bruce. “The Druids and Human Sacrifice.” Death, War and
Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice. Chicago: U Chicago,
1991. 176-87.
- Lyonnet, Stanislas & Leopold Sabourin. Sin, Redemption, and
Sacrifice: A Biblical and Patristic Study. Rome: Biblical Institute
Press, 1998.
- Maccoby, Hyam. The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the
Legacy of Guilt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982.
- Malina, Bruce J. “Mediterranean Sacrifice: Dimensions of Domestic
and Political Religion.” Biblical theology bulletin 26/1 (1996):
26 - 44.
- Marvin, Carolyn & David Ingle. Blood Sacrifice and the Nation:
Totem Rituals and the American Flag. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
- Marx, Alfred. “Familiarité et transcendance. La fonction du
sacrifice d’aprés l’Ancien Testament.” In Studien zu Opfer
und Kult im Alten Testament, ed. Schenker, Adrian, 1 - 14. Forschungen
zum Alten Testament 3. TUbingen: Mohr, 1992.
- Marx, Alfred. Les Offrandes Végétales dans
l’Ancien Testament. VTSup 57. Leiden: Brill, 1994.
- Marx, Alfred. “La place du sacrifice dans l’ancien Israél.”
In J. A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume: Cambridge 1995.
VTSup 66. Leiden: Brill, 1997. 203-217.
- Marx, Alfred. “The Theology of Sacrifice According to Leviticus
1-7.” In R. Rendtorff and R. A. Kugler (eds.), The Book of
Leviticus: Composition and Reception. VTSup 93. Leiden: Brill,
2003. 103-120.
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Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (1969), 166-76.
- McCarthy, Dennis J. “Further Notes on the Symbolism of Blood
and Sacrifice,” Journal of Biblical Literature 92 (1973),
205-10.
- McClymond, Kathryn. “The Nature and Elements of Sacrificial
Ritual.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion,
16/4 (2004), pp. 337-366.
- McEntire, Mark Harold. The Function of Sacrifice in Chronicles,
Ezra, and Nehemiah. Mellon, 1993.
- McLean, Bradley H. “The Absence of an Atoning Sacrifice in Paul’s
Soteriology.” New Testament studies 38 (1992): 531 - 553.
- Meyers, Carol. “Hannah and her Sacrifice. Reclaiming Female Agency.”
In A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings, ed. Athalya Brenner.
Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994. 93-104.
- Milgrom, Jacob. Leviticus 1-16, Leviticus 17-22, Leviticus 23-27.
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- Mizruchi, Susan L. The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature
and Modern Social Theory. Princeton University Press, 1998.
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American Literary History 12/3 (2000) 467-492.
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- Nancy, Jean-Luc. "The Unsacrificeable," trans. Richard Livingston,
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Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001).
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The Aqedah (Genesis 22) and its Interpretations. Leiden: Brill,
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Quarterly 54 (1992): 29-38.
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