Blood for Thought

Blood for Thought
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520401419
ISBN-13 : 0520401417
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blood for Thought by : Mira Balberg

Download or read book Blood for Thought written by Mira Balberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Blood for Thought Related Books

Blood for Thought
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Mira Balberg
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-03 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Introduction -- Missing persons -- The work of blood -- Sacrifice as one -- Three hundred passovers -- Ordinary miracles -- Conclusion: the end of sacrifice, re
The Law of Blood
Language: en
Pages: 263
Authors: Johann Chapoutot
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-02 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive
Blood Water Paint
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Joy McCullough
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-06 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of
Of Better Blood
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Susan Moger
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-01 - Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Teenage polio survivor Rowan Collier is caught in the crossfire of a secret war against "the unfit." It's 1922, and eugenics—the movement dedicated to racial
Blood Hollow
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: William Kent Krueger
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-21 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Blood Hollow immerses readers in an eerie mystery surrounding a racially charged murder in small-town Minnesota.