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- Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law
- Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Women's Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law
- 2 Gender, Animals, and Sacrificial Victimology
- 3 Mothers, Milk, and Meat: The Exclusion of Motherhood from Sacrifice in Cultic Food Laws
- 4 Females and Death: The Sacred Impurity of the Red Cow
- 5 Impurityandthe Creation of Difference
- 6 Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child Sacrifice
- Conclusion: Child Sacrifice and Animal Sacrifice
- Bibliography
- Biblical References Index
- Subject Index
1 - Women's Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law
- Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Women's Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law
- 2 Gender, Animals, and Sacrificial Victimology
- 3 Mothers, Milk, and Meat: The Exclusion of Motherhood from Sacrifice in Cultic Food Laws
- 4 Females and Death: The Sacred Impurity of the Red Cow
- 5 Impurityandthe Creation of Difference
- 6 Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child Sacrifice
- Conclusion: Child Sacrifice and Animal Sacrifice
- Bibliography
- Biblical References Index
- Subject Index
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- Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law , pp. 18 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013