Editor: Chiara Petrolini
Das sogenannte Feueropfer
in: Hebraeische Wortforschung. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von W. Baumgartner, pp. 114-134
Leiden: Brill, 1967.
God telling Moses how to make sacrifices (1538)
from: Holbein, Hans, Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées, Lyon, Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for Jean and François Frellon]
Louvre, Paris
Les Lévites se nourriront des sacrifices (1538)
from: Holbein, Hans, Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées, Lyon, Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel [for Jean and François Frellon], 1538
Louvre, Paris
The ritualistic murder of a Christian child by a group of Jewish men; the child standing at centre, surrounded by five figures who are restraining, cutting him and gathering his blood; in an ornament frame with Gothic Laubwerk along upper edge; illustration to Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511. (1511)
from: Ubertino Pusculino, 'Duo libri Symonidos de Judaeorum perfidia', Augsburg: Johan Ottmar, 1511
Bristih Museum
The Sacrifice of Ahaz (1543)
from: Historiarum Veteris Testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyon, Subscuto coloniensis, apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, frates, 1543
Louvre, Paris
The Sacrifice of Elijah (1543)
from: Historiarum Veteris Testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyon, Subscuto coloniensis, apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, frates, 1543
Louvre, Paris
The Sacrifice of Elijah (1543)
from: Historiarum Veteris Testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyon, Subscuto coloniensis, apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, frates, 1543
Louvre, Paris
Burnt offerings in the Temple of Jerusalem from within the Court of the Levites (1660)
from: plate from the 'Restoration' Bible 2 vols., published by John Ogilby, Cambridge, 1660
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan
London: Becket & De Hondt, 1765-1771.
In the left foreground a camel is being slaughtered. Religion in Japan. Shown are all kinds of large and small statues of gods. With legend in Dutch and French. (1682)
from: Vries, Simon de. Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, deel 3, p. 109. Utrecht: J. Ribbius, 1682
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Japanese mendicants, lepers, muck-eaters, acts of self-immolation, the bathing of “Brahmins and fakirs,” Mexican human sacrifice and deities, and a Turkish dervish. (1682)
from: Simon de Vries (ca. 1580–1629), Curieuse Aenmerckingen der byzondereste Oost en West Indische… dingen (Curious Remarks on the most exceptional East and West Indian… matters), vol. 3 (Utrecht: Johannes Ribbius, 1682)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Landscape with aspects about sin and penance. On the right of the scene a child is being slaughtered. (1682)
from: Vries, Simon de. Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, deel 3, p. 6. Utrecht: J. Ribbius, 1682
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
the healers making an offering to an idol asking if it can cure the sick person. As atonement, a number of goats are slaughtered. In the process, the tent of the sick man is incensed. In the background is a thanksgiving feast at an idol. On the right image, a man (according to the text a Jesuit) is being shaved by a toll master in front of some Dutchmen. (1682)
from: Vries, Simon de. Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische verwonderens-waerdige dingen, deel 4, p. 664 en deel 3, p. 596. Utrecht: J. Ribbius, 1682
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Horse Sacrifice in Antiquity
in: Yale Classical Studies, v. 1 (1928), issue : pp.181-192.
Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood (1700-1760)
Wellcome Collection, London
Zarathustra und die Rinderschlachtung
in: Wort und Wirklichkeit. . Studien zur Afrikanistik und Orientalistik. E.L. Rapp zum 70. Geburtstag, pp. 17-29
Meisenhiem an Glan: Hain, 1977.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
London: Penguin, 2004 [1779].
Some human sacrifices in Mongolia and their rationales
in: Human Sacrifice and Value. Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective, pp. Chap. 2
London: Routledge, 2023.