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For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. He has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic scholarship on religion in matters of education and public policy. Smith's writings on these crucial issues for education have been largely inaccessible until now.
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Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such—the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and move and maneuver. Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its social function, a theory that posits original acts of group violence. Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the utility of such a general theory. Among the highlights of this stimulating interchange of ideas is a searching criticism of Girard's theory of generative scapegoating, which he answers with clarity and conviction, and a challenging of Burkert's theory of the origin of sacrifice in the hunt by Smith's argument, posed as a jeu d'esprit, that sacrifice originates with the domestication of animals.
Human sacrifice. --- Ritualism. --- Violence. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Ritual --- Sacrifice, Human --- Sacrifice --- Human sacrifice --- Ritualism --- Violence --- 291.34 --- 291.34 Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Indirecte beïnvloeding van de goddelijke wil: offergaven; dierenoffers; mensenoffers; dankoffers; rituele moorden; boetedoeningen --- Ritual murder
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Thirteen essays from an ASOR symposium on the relationship among archaeology, text and our understanding of ancient Israelite religion. Contributors include: J. Z. Smith, W. G. Dever, Z. Zevit, K. van der Toorn, J. M. Sasson, E. Bloch-Smith, S. Gitin, B. A. Levine, W. T. Pitard, T. J. Lewis, and B. M. Gittlen.
Archaeology and religion. --- Judaism --- Jews --- Archaeology --- Religion and archaeology --- Religion --- History --- Religious aspects --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Evidences, authority, etc. --- Antiquities. --- Middle East --- Religion. --- Archaeology and religion --- 902 <33> --- 902 <33> Archeologie--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Archeologie--Oud-Palestina. Judea --- Judaism. --- Jews. --- Authority --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Authority (Religion) --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Religions --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Religious aspects. --- Middle East. --- Orient --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Palaia Diathēk --- Jewish question --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- South West --- Asia
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