Not sparing the child : human sacrifice in the ancient world and beyond : studies in honor of Professor Paul G. Mosca /: human sacrifice in the ancient world and beyond : studies in honor of Professor Paul G. Mosca. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by V. Daphna Arbel, Paul C. Burns, J.R.C. Cousland, Richard Menkis, and Dietmar Neufeld.
• Editors: Arbel, Vita Daphna; Burns, Paul C; Cousland, J. R. C; Menkis, Richard; Neufeld, Dietmar
• Other Names: Mosca, Paul G honouree.
• Contents: Child sacrifice as the extreme case and calculation / Mark S. Smith -- Human sacrifice in pre- and early dynastic Egypt: what do you want to find? / Thomas Hikade and Jane Roy -- God's infanticide in the night of Passover: Exodus 12 in the light of ancient Egyptian rituals / Thomas Schneider -- A late Punic narrative about disrupted sacrifice? Hr. Medeine N2 / Philip C. Schmitz -- Is the language of child sacrifice used figuratively in Ezekiel 16? / Peggy L. Day -- Mocking boys, baldness, and bears: Elisha's deadly honour (2 Kings 2.23-24) / Dietmar Neufeld -- Death and the maiden: human sacrifice in Euripides' Andromeda / C.W. Marshall -- Child sacrifice: a polyvalent story in early eucharistic piety / Paul C. Burns -- Deus necans: Jesus in the infancy Gospel of Thomas / J.R.C. Cousland -- Living sacrifice: rethinking Abrahamic religious sacrifice using field narratives of Eid Ul-Adha / Michel Desjardins and Aldea Mulhern -- John Milton's poetics for Christ versus Moloch / Lee Johnson.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (246 pages)
• Subjects: 230/.420937; Human sacrifice; Child sacrifice; RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic; RELIGION -- Christianity -- General; Child sacrifice; Human sacrifice; Menschenopfer; Altertum; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567352637; 0567352633; 9780567659170; 0567659178
• Related ISBNs: 9780567654854; 0567654850
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
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