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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Overall, this monograph is enjoyable and instructive. One is invited to explore related themes that, perhaps surprisingly, are never explicitly mentioned in this book and yet are clearly relevant to its argument, including the Foucauldian notion of power as ‘discourse’, the question of the struggle for cultural hegemony with Christianity, the effort to justify a religious life without a sacrificial system, and, finally, the emerging cultural rivalry between the Roman imperial religion and the rabbis’ ‘utopia’. . . . impeccable." * Journal of Jewish Studies *
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Blood for Thought is a fresh, powerful, and convincing argument for the distinctive role of Judaism in the history of religions, as well as the relationship between speech and action, human and animal, and the broader human meanings of sacrifice." * H-Net Reviews *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Missing Persons
2. Th e Work of Blood
3. Sacrifice as One
4. Th ree Hundred Passovers
5. Ordinary Miracles
Conclusion: The End of Sacrifice, Revisited
Bibliography
Subject Index
Source Index
