The Actuality of Sacrifice: Past and Present

Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible
Louise 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 1
David Frankel, The Death of Moses as a Sacrifice of Atonement for the Sins of Israel: A Hidden Biblical Tradition

New Testament and post-Biblical Judaism
Eric Ottenheijm, ‘So the Sons are Free’: The Temple Tax in the Matthean Community
Lawrence Schiffman, Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Adelbert Denaux, Jesus Christ, High Priest and Sacrifice according to the Epistle to the Hebrews
Joshua Schwartz, Sacrifice without the Rabbis: Ritual and Sacrifice in the Second Temple Period according to Contemporary Sources

Early Christianity and Rabbinic literature
Riemer Roukema, Sacrifice in ‘Gnostic’ Testimonies of the Second and Third Centuries CE
Marcel Poorthuis, Sacrifice as Concession in Christian and Jewish Sources: The Didascalia Apostolorum and Rabbinic Literature
Alberdina Houtman, Putting One’s Life on the Line: The Meaning of he`erah lamavet nafsho and Similar Expressions in Rabbinic Literature
Michael Swartz, Sacrifice and Society in Yerushalmi Yoma

Thoughts on Sacrifice in the High Middle Ages
Harm Goris, Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrifice of Christ: Thomas Aquinas against Later Thomist Theology
Alexander Even Chen, On Purifying Sacrifice in the Philosophy of Don Isaac Abravanel

Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Liturgy
Gerard Rouwhorst, Which Religion Is Most Sacrificial? Reflections on the Transformations of Sacrifice in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
David Golinkin, The Restoration of Sacrifices in Modern Jewish Liturgy


Sacrifice in Modern Philosophy
Yossi Turner Sacrifice and Repentance: The Religious Thought of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Renée van Riessen The Subject as Sacrifice: Levinas’s Confusing Critique of the Idealistic Subject Philosophy
Simon Simonse Can We Be at Peace without Sacrifice? The Connection between Sacrifice and Crisis in the Work of René Girard

Sacrifice in Art and Culture
Shula Laderman Interaction 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 Holocaust
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz The Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women’s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain
Judith Frishman On Sacrifices, Victims, and Perpetrators: Israel’s ‘New Historians’, Critical Artists, and Zionist Historiography
Frank Bosman Tarkovsky's Sacrifice: Between Nietzsche and Christ