Actuality of Sacrifice

Alberdina Houtman, Ph.D. (1995), Utrecht University (the Netherlands), is lecturer of Semitic Languages and professor extraordinarius of Jewish studies at Protestant Theological University Amsterdam/Groningen, location Amsterdam. She has published extensively on rabbinic literature, especially Targum.Marcel Poorthuis, professor in interreligious dialogue at the University of Tilburg. published on Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their interaction. His dissertation (1992) dealt with the Talmudic commentaries of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D. (1981), is Professor of Historical Geography of Ancient Israel and directs the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem. Yossi Turner is a professor of modern and contemporary Jewish thought at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. His writings include a study on Franz Rosenzweig and various essays on the religious and social thought of Rabbi Nahman Krokchmal, Hermann Cohen, Aaron David Gordon, Mordecai Kaplan and others. He recently published about the relation to Zion and the diaspora in 20th century Jewish thought.

'Students of the liturgical sciences wil profit greatly from this volume of rich contributions. Those interested in ecumenical issues will liekwise find the volume informative and helpful in understanding how liturgical renewal is indeed a concrete path to Christian unity.'James F. Puglisi, Centro Pro Unione, Worship 90, January 2016.

• Archaeology and the Hebrew BibleLouise A. Hitchcock, Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early Iron Age Dorothea Erbele-Kuester, Reading as an Act of Offering: Reconsidering the Genre of Leviticus 1David Frankel, The Death of Moses as a Sacrifice of Atonement for the Sins of Israel: A Hidden Biblical TraditionNew Testament and post-Biblical JudaismEric Ottenheijm, ‘So the Sons are Free’: The Temple Tax in the Matthean CommunityLawrence Schiffman, Sacrifice in the Dead Sea ScrollsAdelbert Denaux, Jesus Christ, High Priest and Sacrifice according to the Epistle to the HebrewsJoshua Schwartz, Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to Contemporary SourcesEarly Christianity and Rabbinic literature Riemer Roukema, Sacrifice in ‘Gnostic’ Testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries CEMarcel Poorthuis, Sacrifice as Concession in Christian and Jewish Sources: The Didascalia Apostolorum and Rabbinic LiteratureAlberdina Houtman, Putting One’s Life on the Line: The Meaning of he`erah lamavet nafsho and Similar Expressions in Rabbinic LiteratureMichael Swartz, Sacrifice and Society in Yerushalmi YomaThoughts on Sacrifice in the High Middle AgesHarm Goris, Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against Later Thomist TheologyAlexander Even Chen, On Purifying Sacrifice in the Philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian LiturgyGerard Rouwhorst, Which Religion Is Most Sacrificial? Reflections on the Transformations of Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Rabbinic JudaismDavid Golinkin, The Restoration of Sacrifices in Modern Jewish LiturgySacrifice in Modern PhilosophyYossi TurnerSacrifice and Repentance: The Religious Thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik Renée van RiessenThe Subject as Sacrifice: Levinas’s Confusing Critique of the Idealistic Subject PhilosophySimon SimonseCan We Be at Peace without Sacrifice? The Connection between Sacrifice and Crisis in the Work of René GirardSacrifice in Art and CultureShula LadermanInteraction between Judaism and Christianity in Artistic Representations of the Sacrifice of Isaac Rachel Berger‘From the Blood of My Heart’: Christian Iconography in the Response of Israeli Artists to the HolocaustJudith Tydor Baumel-SchwartzThe Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women’s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great BritainJudith FrishmanOn Sacrifices, Victims, and Perpetrators: Israel’s ‘New Historians’, Critical Artists, and Zionist HistoriographyFrank BosmanTarkovsky's Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ