Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity

Name: Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity
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ISBN: 9780300065114

ISBN-10: 0300065116

ISBN-13: 9780300065114

Edition: 1993

Authors: Jon D. Levenson

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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. His many books include "Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life", which won the National Jewish Book Award, and "Creation and the Persistence of Evil" (Princeton).



Preface


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



A Father's Gift



Child Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible: Deviation or Norm?



YHWH versus Molech



The Sacrifice of the Son as the Imitation of God



El and the Beloved Son



The People Israel as the Son of God



The Sacrifice of the First-Born Son: Eradicated or Transformed?



The Beloved Sons in Genesis



First-Born and Late-Born, Fathers and Mothers



The Loved and the Unloved



Favor and Fratricide



"Let me not look on as the child dies"



The Aqedah as Etiology



Isaac Unbound



The Beloved Son as Ruler and Servant



The Beloved Son Between Zion and Golgotha



The Rewritten Aqedah of Jewish Tradition



The Displacement of Isaac and the Birth of the Church



The Revisioning of God in the Image of Abraham


Notes


Scripture Index


Author Index