2005, ISBN: 9789004147003

Leiden: Brill, 2002. First edition. Near fine. Octavo. viii, 329p, (1)pp. Index. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. Illustrated with a text drawing. A fine but e… Meer...

Leiden: Brill, 2002. First edition. Near fine. Octavo. viii, 329p, (1)pp. Index. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. Illustrated with a text drawing. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). This book presents revised papers delivered at the 1998 and 1999 Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences. The papers from the 1998 conference discuss the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective. Those from the second conference examine alternatives to sacrifice. The first theme has been much elaborated in recent scholarship, and the essays here participate in that on-going inquiry. The second theme has been less explored, and the goal of this volume is to stimulate examination of the topic by offering a set of test cases. In both sections of the volume a wide variety of religious traditions are considered. The essays show that in spite of the inclination we may sometimes have to consider sacrifice part of the idolatrous past, long overcome, it remains a persistent and meaningful part of religious experience. (Publisher) Contents: pt. 1. Sacrifice from a comparative perspective. Sacrifice in African traditional religions / T. Sundermeier. -- Towards a gendered typology of sacrifice: women & feasting, men & death in an Okinawan village / S. Sered. -- Sacrifice in Mesopotamia / T. Abusch. -- Were the firstborn sacrificed to YHWH? To Molek? Popular practice or divine demand? / J. Milgrom. -- The semiotics of the priestly vestments in ancient Judaism / M.D. Swartz. -- Sacrifice and sacrificial ceremonies of the Roman imperial army / P. Herz. -- Sacrifice and theory of sacrifice during the 'Pagan Reaction': Julian the Emperor / N. Belayche. -- Animal sacrifice in ancient Zoroastrianism: a ritual and its interpretations / A. de Jong.; pt. 2. Alternatives to sacrifice. Forgiveness of sins without a victim: Jesus and the Levitical jubilee / A. Destro and M. Pesce. -- Eucharist: surrogate, metaphor, sacrament of sacrifice / B. Chilton. -- This is my body: sacrificial presentation and the origins of Christian ritual / B. Lang. -- The Christian exegesis of the scapegoat between Jews and pagans / D.J. Stökl. -- The body as temple in the High Middle Ages / J.A. Harris. -- Firstfruits in the Quran / J. Benthall. -- Reestablishing sacrifice in times of trouble? Soma Morgenstern's Blutsäule as negative sacrificology / G. Palmer. -- Echoes of sacrifice? Repertoires of giving in the great religions / I.F. Silber. Note: This book contains revisions of numerous selected papers (with bibliographies) presented at 2 international conferences held in 1998 and 1999. (OCLC) Volume 93 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.", Brill, 2002, 4, Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.3000 9.6000 6.4000. Minimal wear and handling. Page are clean., Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15, 3<

2015, ISBN: 9789004147003

Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15. Hardcover. Like New. 1.3000 9.6000 6.4000., Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15, 5, Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. x, 319, (1)… Meer...

Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15. Hardcover. Like New. 1.3000 9.6000 6.4000., Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15, 5, Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. x, 319, (1)pp. Indices and 18 page bibliography. Text in English. Pictorial red boards lettered in white, with pink spine label. A fine, as new copy. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger examines quotations of exegetical materials attributed to female figures in classical Sunn Quran commentaries, and analyses their significance within the pre-modern genre of tafsr. (OCLC) A number of classical Sunn Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.-thr, adths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger provides a comprehensive introduction to such quotations, and offers an analysis of their place and significance within the pre-modern genre of Quran commentary, demonstrating that key hermeneutical concepts in classical quranic exegesis (tafsr) are gendered. Bringing together materials which have not previously been examined in detail and utilising gender as a lens through which to study them, this work provides a new approach to the study of pre-modern tafsr. (Publisher) Contents: Constructions of gender in pre-modern Quran commentaries -- From unwitting source to Quran commentator: gender and early transhistorical exegetical communities -- Negotiating interpretive authority in second/eighth and early third/ninth century exegesis: shifting historical contexts -- adth, hermeneutics and gender in the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries -- Constructing the abode of the mothers of the believers: gendered exegetical gazes -- (Re)constructions of the sacred past, gender, and exegesis: some medieval trajectories. (OCLC) Volume 117 of the Brill series, "Islamic History and Civilization." (IHC)., Brill, 2015, 5, Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15. Hardcover. Like New. 1.3000 9.6000 6.4000. The copy is sealed in its original plastic. The cover has some minor dents, and the overwrap has some small tears. The copy is in otherwise like-new condition., Brill Academic Pub, 2005-10-15, 5<