Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition

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Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition is written by Karin Finsterbusch and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 904740940X (ISBN 10) and 9789047409403 (ISBN 13).

This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian traditions as well as the debates about euthanasia and death penalty in the Western world.