Topical Bibliography on Sacrifice for REL 622

James W. Watts

AnthologiesTheories & ComparisonsTheologyContemporary West19th-20th c. West
Early ModernityMezo-AmericanIndigenousJudaismIslamIndiaChina
Christian MedievalPre-Christian EuropeLate AntiquityEarly Christianity
Ancient GreeceAncient Israel Ancient Near East

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. Ed. M. F. C. Bourdillon and M. Fortes. London: Academic Press, 1980.

Sacrifice in Religious Experience. Ed. Albert I. Baumgarten. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Sacrifice in the Bible. Ed. Roger T. Beckwith and Martin J. Selman. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995.

Understanding Religious Sacrifice: a Reader. Ed. Jeffrey Carter. London: Continuum, 2003.

Theories & Comparisons:

Arnould, Elisabeth. “The Impossible Sacrifice of Poetry: Bataille and the Nancian Critique of Sacrifice.” Diacritics 26.2 (1996) 86-96.

Bataille, Georges. Theory of Religion. Tr. R. Hurley. New York: Zone, 1992 (1948).

Bloch, Maurice. Prey Into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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. Translated by P. Bing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 (Ger. orig. 1972).

Derrida, Jacques, “Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know),” in The Gift of Death. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1996.

Drexler, J. Die Illusion des Opfers. Ein wissenschaftlicher Überblick über die wichtigsten Opftertheorien ausgehen vom deleuzianischen Polyperspektivismusmodell. Münchener Ethnologische Abhandlungen 12. Munich, 1993.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Metropolitan, 1997.

Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Abridged edition. New York: Macmillan, 1922, 1960.

Freud, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics. Tr. A. A. Brill. New York: Vintage, 1918.

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.

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.

Goldhammer, Jesse. The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence In Modern French Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Pres, 2005.

Henninger, Joseph. “Sacrifice.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 544-57.

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: University of Chicago Press, 1964 (French original, 1898).

James, E. O. Origins of Sacrifice: A Study in Comparative Religion. London: Murray, 1933.

Jay, Nancy. Throughout Your Generations Forever: Sacrifice, Religion, and Paternity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Lincoln, Bruce. “Sacrificial Ideology and Indo-European Society.” Death, War and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice. Chicago: U Chicago, 1991. 167-75.

Maccoby, Hyam. The Sacred Executioner: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982.

McClymond, Kathryn. “The Nature and Elements of Sacrificial Ritual.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 16 (2004), 337-366.

Nancy, Jean-Luc. “The Unsacrificeable.” Tr. Richard Livingston. Yale French Studies 79 (1991): 20-38.

Rasmussen, Susan J. “Animal Sacrifice and the Problem of Translation: The Construction of Meaning in Tuareg Sacrifice.” Journal of Ritual Studies 16/2 (2002) 141-164.

Robbins, Jill.  “Sacrifice.” In Critical Terms for Religious Studies. Ed. Mark C. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 285-97.

Silber, Ilana F. “Echoes of Sacrifice? Repertoires of Giving in the Great Religions.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 291-312.

Strenski, Ivan. “Between Theory and Specialty: Sacrifice in the 90s.” RSR 22/1 (1996): 10-20.

Williams, James G. “Sacrifice and the Beginning of Kingship.” Semeia 67 (1994): 73-92.

Theology:

Brandt, Sigrid. Opfer als Gedächtnis: Auf dem Weg zu einer befreienden theologischen Rede von Opfer. Münster: LIT, 2001.

Daly, Robert J. The Origins of the Christian Doctrine of Sacrifice. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

Daly, Robert J.  “Is Christianity Sacrificial or Antisacrificial?” Religion 27 (1997) 231-43.

Daly, Robert J. “Sacrifice.” In The New Dictionary of Theology. Ed. J. Komonchak et al. Dublin 1990.

Peters, Ted. “Atonement and the Final Scapegoat.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 19/2 (1992), 151-81.

Contemporary Western Culture:

Bergen, Wesley J. Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. JSOTSup 417. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Delaney, Carol. Abraham on Trial: the Social Legacy of Biblical Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Draper, Richard D. “Sacrifice in Biblical Times.” Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Ed. D. H. Ludlow. New York: Macmillan, 1992. 3:1248-49.

Garber, Zev & Bruce Zuckerman. “Why do we call the Holocaust ‘The Holocaust’?” In Z. Garber, Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide. Lanham: UPA, 1994. 51-66.

Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. New York: Anchor, 2003.

Marvin, Carolyn and David Ingle. Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Mizruchi, Susan L. “The Place of Ritual in Our Time.” American Literary History 12/3 (2000) 467-492.

Smith, Brian K. “Capital Punishment and Human Sacrifice.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68/1 (2000) 3-25.

Thomas, Gloria Jean. “Sacrifice.” Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Ed. D. H. Ludlow. New York: Macmillan, 1992. 3:1248.

Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century Western Culture:

Bellah, Robert N. “Civil Religion in America.” In Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditional World. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Pp. 168-89.

Frantzen, Allen J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Mizruchi, Susan L. The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory.  Princeton University Press, 1998.

Strenski, Ivan. Contesting Sacrifice: Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Strenski, Ivan. Theology and the First Theory of Sacrifice. Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Early Modernity:

Georgourdi, Stella. “Sanctified Slaughter in Modern Greece: the ‘Kourbania’ of the Saints.” In Cuisine of Sacrifice, 183-203.

Goldhammer, Jesse. The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence In Modern French Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Pres, 2005.

Shuger, Debora Kuller. The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Mezo-America:

Arnold, Philip P. Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1999.

Carrasco, David L. City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization. Beacon, 1999.

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico. Tr. A. P. Maudslay. New York: Farrer, Straus & Cudahy.

Sahagun, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. The School of American Research, 1981.

Other Indigenous Cultures:

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.

Evans-Prichard, 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.

Heusch, Luc de. Sacrifice in Africa: A Structuralist Approach. Tr. Linda O’Brian and Alice Morton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Rasmussen, Susan J. “Animal Sacrifice and the Problem of Translation: The Construction of Meaning in Tuareg Sacrifice.” Journal of Ritual Studies 16/2 (2002) 141-164.

Sered, Susan. “Towards a Gendered Typology of Sacrifice: Women & Feasting, Men & Death in an Okinawan Village.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 13-38.

Sundermeier, Theo. “Sacrifice in African Traditional Religions.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 3-12.

Valeri, Valerio. Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Judaism:

Boyarin, Daniel. Dying for God. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Garber, Zev & Bruce Zuckerman. “Why do we call the Holocaust ‘The Holocaust’?” In Z. Garber, Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide. Lanham: UPA, 1994. 51-66.

Klawans, Jonathan. Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Levenson, Jon D. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Pres, 1993.

Islam:

Bremer, Tom. “Sacrificial Slaughter and Dressing Up: Gender Articulations in Muslim Rituals.” Religious Studies Review 22, no. 3 (1996): 209-13.

Combs-Shilling, M.  Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality and Sacrifice. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Hammoudi, Abdellah. The Victim and Its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Tr. Paula Wissing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Moosa, Ebrahim. “Sacrifice.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. J. L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 3:447-48.

China:

See bibliography on Violence in Chinese culture (section #8 on sacrifice) by Barend J. ter Haar at http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/bth/violencetext.htm

India:

Heesterman, J. C. The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Hubert, Henri and Marcel Mauss. Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964 (French original, 1898).

Jamison, Stephanie W. Sacrificed Wife, Sacrificer’s Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Patton, Laurie L. Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Selvanyagam, Israel. Vedic Sacrifice: Challenge and Response. New Delhi: Manohar, 1996.

Urban, Hugh B. “The Path of Power: Impurity, Kingship, and Sacrifice in Assamese Tantra.” Journal of the American Academcy of Religion 69 (2001) 777-816.

Christian Middle Ages:

Frantzen, Allen J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Pre-Christian Europe:

Green, Miranda. Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe. Arcadia, 2001.

Lincoln, Bruce. “The Druids and Human Sacrifice.” Death, War and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 176-87.

Randsborg, Klavs. Hjortspring: Warfare and Sacrifice in Early Europe. Aarhus University Press, 1996.

Rome & Late Antiquity:

Belayche, Nicole. “Sacrifice and Theory of Sacrifice During the ‘Pagan Reaction’: Julian the Emperor.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 101-126.

Eckstein, A. M.  “Human sacrifice and fear of military disaster in Republican Rome.” American Journal of Ancient History 7 (1982) 69-95.

Grant, Robert M.  Early Christians & Animals. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Herz, Peter. “Sacrifice and Sacrificial Ceremonies in the Roman Imperial Army.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 81-100.

Heyman, George P. “The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict.” Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 2004.

Malina, Bruce J. “Mediterranean Sacrifice: Dimensions of Domestic and Political Religion.” Biblical Theology Bulletin 26/1 (1996): 26-44.

North, John A. “Sacrifice and Ritual: Rome.” Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. Ed. M. Grant & R. Kitzinger. New York: Scribner's, 1988. 981-86.

O’Donnell, James J. “The Demise of Paganism.” Traditio 35 (1979), 45-88.

Twyman, Briggs L.  Metus Gallicus: The Celts and Roman Human Sacrifice.”  The Ancient History Bulletin 11.1 (1997) 1-11 (at http://ivory.trentu.ca/www/cl/ahb/ahb11/ahb-11-1a.html).

Versnel, H. S. “Self-sacrifice, Compensation and the Anonymous Gods.” Le Sacrifice dans l'Antiquité. Ed. J. Rudhardt & O. Reverdin. Geneva: Vandoeuvres, 1981. 135-194.

Watts, Dorothy. Religion in Late Roman Britain: Forces of Change.  Routledge, 1998.

Yerkes, Royden Keith. Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism. New York: Scribner's, 1952.


Early Christianity:

Boyarin, Daniel. Dying for God. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Chilton, Bruce. The Temple of Jesus: His Sacrificial Program Within a Cultural History of Sacrifice. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.

Daly, Robert J. The Origins of the Christian Doctrine of Sacrifice. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978.

Daly, Robert J. “The Power of Sacrifice in Ancient Judaism and Christianity.” Journal of Ritual Studies 4/2 (1990): 181-98.

Heyman, George P. “The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict.” Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 2004.

Koester, Helmut. “Jesus the Victim.” Journal of Biblical Literature 111 (1992): 3-15

Levenson, Jon D. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Pres, 1993.

Lyonnet, Stanislas & Leopold Sabourin. Sin, Redemption, and Sacrifice: A Biblical and Patristic Study. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1998.

McLean, Bradley H. “The Absence of an Atoning Sacrifice in Paul’s Soteriology.” New Testament Studies 38 (1992): 531-553.

Young, Frances. The Use of Sacrificial Ideas in Greek Christian Writers from the New Testament to John Chrysostom. Philadelphia: Patristic, 1979.

Ancient Greece:

Bremer, Jan. “Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 87 (1983) 299-320.

Burkert, Walter. Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth. Translated by P. Bing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983 (Ger. orig. 1972).

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.

Durand, J.-L. Sacrifice et Labeur en Grèce Ancienne: Essai d’Anthropologie Religieuse. Editions de la Decouverte, 1986.

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.

Kitts, Margo. “Sacrificial Violence in the Iliad.” Journal of Ritual Studies 16/1 (2002) 19-39.

Osborne, Robin. “Women and Sacrifice in Ancient Greece.” The Classical Quarterly 43/2 (1993): 392-405.

Rosivach, Vincent J. The System of Public Sacrifice in Fourth-Century Athens. American Classical Studies, 34. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.

Straten, F.T. Van.  Hiera Kala: Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 127. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

Stowers, Stanley K.  “On the comparison of blood in Greek and Israelite ritual.”  In Hesed ve-Emet:  Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs.  Ed. J. Magnes & S. Gitin. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998. 179-88.

Yerkes, Royden Keith. Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism. New York: Scribner's, 1952.

Ancient Israel:

Anderson, Gary A. Sacrifice and Sacrificial Offerings (OT).” In Anchor Bible Dictionary, 870-86.

Anderson, Gary A. Sacrifices and Offerings in Ancient Israel: Studies in Their Social and Political Importance. HSM. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987.

Beckwith, Roger T. and Martin J. Selman, eds. Sacrifice in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995.

Bergen, Wesley J. Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. JSOTSup 417. London: T&T Clark, 2005.

Boehm, Omri.  “Child Sacrifice, Ethical Responsibility and the Existence of the People of Israel.” Vetus Testamentum 54 (2004) 145-56.

Brichto, H.  “On Slaughter and Sacrifice, Blood and Atonement.” Hebrew Union College Annual 58 (1976) 1-17.

Dahm, Ulrike. Opferkult und Priestertum in Alt-Israel: Ein kultur- und religionswissenschaftlicher Beitrag. BZAW 327. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2003.

Delaney, Carol. Abraham on Trial: the Social Legacy of Biblical Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Draper, Richard D. “Sacrifice in Biblical Times.” Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Ed. D. H. Ludlow. New York: Macmillan, 1992. 3:1248-49.

Eberhart, Christian. Studien zur Bedeutung der Opfer im Alten Testament: Die Signifikanz von Blut- und Verbrennungsriten im kultischen Raum. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukircherner, 2002.

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.

Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Gilders, William K. Blood Ritual in the Hebrew Bible: Meaning and Power. Johns Hopkins UP, 2004.

Gray, George Buchanan. Sacrifice in the Old Testament: Its Theory and Practice. New York: Ktav, 1971 (1925).

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.

Hubert, Henri and Marcel Mauss. Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964 (French original, 1898).

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.

Kessler, Edward. Bound By the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Kiuchi, N. The Purification Offering in the Priestly Literature: Its Meaning and Function. JSOTSup. Sheffield: JSOT, 1987.

Klawans, Jonathan. “Pure Violence: Sacrifice and Defilement in Ancient Israel.” HTR 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.

Kunin, Seth Daniel. “The Death of Isaac: Structuralist Analysis of Genesis 22.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 64 (1994): 57-81.

Levenson, Jon D. The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Pres, 1993.

Löhr, Max. Das Räucheropfer im Alten Testament: eine archäologische Untersuchung. Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1927.

Marx, Alfred.  “La place du sacrifice dans l’ancien Israel.”  In J. A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume: Cambridge 1995. VTSup 66. Leiden: Brill, 1997. 203-217.

Marx, Alfred. “Familiarité et transcendance: La fonction du sacrifice d’après l’Ancien Testament.” In Adrian Schenker (ed.), Studien zu Opfer und Kult im Alten Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992. 1-14.

Marx, Alfred.  Les Offrandes Végétales dans l’Ancien Testament. VTSup 57. Leiden: Brill, 1994.

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.

McCarthy, Dennis J. “The Symbolism of Blood and Sacrifice,” 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.

McEntire, Mark Harold.  The Function of Sacrifice in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.  Mellon, 1993.

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. Anchor Bible 3. 3 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1991, 2000, 2001.

Noort, Ed and Eibert Tigchelaar (eds.). The Sacrifice of Isaac: The Aqedah (Genesis 22) and its Interpretations. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Pleins, David J. “Son-Slayers and Their Sons.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 54 (1992): 29-38.

Rendtorff, Rolf. Studien zur Geschichte des Opfers im Alten Israel. WMANT 24. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1967.

Rendtorff, Rolf. Leviticus. BKAT. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 1990.

Rosset, Vincent. “Bibliographie 1969-1991 zum Opfer in der Bibel.” In Adrian Schenker (ed.), Studien zu Opfer und Kult im Alten Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992. 107-151.

Rost, Leonhard. “Erwägungen zum israelitischen Brandopfer.” In Von Ugarit nach Qumran. Ed. J. Hempel and L. Rost. BZAW. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1958. 177-83.

Rost, Leonhard. Studien zum Opfer im Alten Israel. BWANT 6/13. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1981.

Smith, W. Robertson. The Religion of the Semites. 2nd ed. London: Black, 1907.

Sperling, David.  “Blood.”  Anchor Bible Dictionary 1:761-63.

Stowers, Stanley K.  “On the comparison of blood in Greek and Israelite ritual.”  In Hesed ve-Emet:  Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs.  Ed. J. Magnes & S. Gitin. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998. 179-88.

Thompson, R. J. Penitence and Sacrifice in Early Israel Outside the Levitical Law: An Examination of the Fellowship Theory of Early Israelite Sacrifice. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963.

Vaux, Roland De. “Les sacrifices de porcs en Palestine et dans l’Ancien Orient.” In Von Ugarit nach Qumran. Eds J. Hempel and L. Rost. BZAW. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1958. 250-65.

Willi-Plein, Ina. Opfer und Kult im alttestamentlichen Israel. Textbefragungen und Zwischenergebnisse. Stuttgarter Bibelstudien 153. Stuttgart: Katholische Bibelwerk, 1993.

Zwickel, Wolfgang. “Zur Frühgeschichte des Brandopfers in Israel.” In Biblische Welten. Festschrift für Martin Metzger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag. Ed. W. Zwickel. Orbis biblicus et orientalis 123. Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag, 1993. 231 – 248.

Ancient Near East:

Abusch, Tzvi. “Sacrifice in Mesopotamia.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 39-48.

Attridge, Harold W. and Robert A. Oden, Jr. Philo of Byblos: The Phoenician History. CBQMS 9. Washington: Catholic Biblical Association, 1981. 

Bergmann, Martin S.  In the Shadow of Moloch : The Sacrifice of Children and Its Impact on Western Religions.  New York: Columbia University Press, 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.

Brown, Shelby. Late Carthaginian Child Sacrifice and Sacrificial Monuments in Their Mediterranean Context. ASOR monograph series 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991.

De Liagre Böhl, F. M. T. “Das Menschenopfer bei den alten Sumerern.” In Opera Minora. Groningen: Wolters, 1953. 163-73.

Green, A.R.W. The Roles of Human Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1975.

Hallo, W. W. “The Origins of the Sacrificial Cult: New Evidence from Mesopotamia and Israel.”  In Ancient Israelite Religion. Ed. Patricik D. Miller, Jr. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987. 3-14.

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.

Jong, Albert de. “Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Zoroastrianism: A Ritual and Its Interpretations.” In Sacrifice in Religious Experience, 127-148.

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.

Lipiński, E. “Rites et sacrifices dans la tradition Phénico-Punique.” In J. Quaegebeur (ed.), Ritual and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East. Leuven: Peeters, 1993. 257-81.

Nikoloudis, Stephie. “Animal Sacrifice in the Mycenaean World.” Journal of Prehistoric Religion 15 (2001).

Quaegebeur, Jan. “L’autel-à-feu et l’abattoir en Égypte tardive.” In Ritual and Sacrifice, 329-353.

Vaux, Roland De. “Les sacrifices de porcs en Palestine et dans l’Ancien Orient.” In Von Ugarit nach Qumran. Eds J. Hempel and L. Rost. BZAW. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1958. 250-65.

Willems, Harco. “Crime, Cult and Capital Punishment (Mo`alla Inscription 8).” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 76 (1990), 27-54.

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