TY - BOOK ID - 31224356 TI - Blood for thought PY - 2017 SN - 9780520295926 0520295927 0520968662 9780520968660 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - Sacrifice KW - Blood KW - Rabbinical literature KW - Rabbis KW - Judaism KW - Jews KW - Jewish rabbis KW - Judaism. KW - Religious aspects KW - History and criticism. KW - Liturgy. KW - Ritual KW - Rituals KW - Blut. KW - Judentum. KW - Opfer. KW - Rabbinical literature. KW - Rabbinische Literatur. KW - Rabbis. KW - Middle East KW - Worship (Judaism) KW - Clergy KW - Jewish scholars KW - Body fluids KW - Fear of blood KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - Liturgy KW - Functionaries KW - bible. KW - biblical sacrifices. KW - christianity. KW - cultural. KW - different worldview. KW - history of judaism. KW - instructions. KW - intellectual. KW - jewish life. KW - judaism. KW - laws. KW - practical manuals. KW - rabbinic literature. KW - rabbis. KW - regulations. KW - religion. KW - religious trends. KW - sacrifice. KW - sacrificial jewish tradition. KW - sacrificial rituals. KW - sacrificial system. KW - temple. KW - torah. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31224356 AB - "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."--Provided by publisher. ER -