Mediterranean Sacrifice: Dimensions of Domestic and Political Religion
Sacrifice is a ritual in which an offering (inducement) is rendered humanly irretrievable and ingestible, and then directed to some controlling higher personage (usually a deity) by someone lower in social status in order to have some life-effect. In the first-century Mediterranean, there were two m...
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Sage
1996
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 1996, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-44 |
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| Summary: | Sacrifice is a ritual in which an offering (inducement) is rendered humanly irretrievable and ingestible, and then directed to some controlling higher personage (usually a deity) by someone lower in social status in order to have some life-effect. In the first-century Mediterranean, there were two major institutional variations of religion: political religion and domestic religion. Hence there was also political sacrifice and domestic sacrifice. In political sacrifice inducement is directed to the deity(ies) as king or lord; in kinships sacrifice inducement is directed to the deity(ies) as the god(s) of the ancestors, a sort of elder family member or as patron or powerful neighbor. Why the offering of animal, vegetable or mineral, rendered irretrievable and ingestible, should have effect depended on the the value of omnipotence as perceived within the radical ingroup/outgroup orientation of ancient Mediterranean societies that defined outgroup members as another species. |
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| ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/014610799602600104 |