Editor: Chiara Petrolini

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Ibrâhîm [Abraham] holding a knife is about to sacrifice his son Ismâ'îl (Ishmael) who kneels before him (1580)

from: Qisas al-Anbiyâ [Qazvin?]

The New York Public Library, Spencer Coll. Persian MS. 46

Topics:
1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbrahamAbraham and IsaacAngelHuman SacrificeIconographyIranIsaacIshmaelIslamKnifeManuscriptPersiaRamSafavid

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Israel: sacrifice of a red heifer (Vue du camp d'Israel et de la cérémonie du sacrifice de la vache rousse). Coloured etching (1760 -1792)

from: A Paris : chez Mondhare

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice FireJewish SacrificeJewish Studies

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Jewish sacrificing children to demons (IX^th Century)

from: Psalterium, Constantinople / Istanbul

Paris, BnF, Grec. 20, fol. 18

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AntisemitismBlood LibelChild SacrificeJewish StudiesManuscriptPsalms

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Job offering sacrifice (for Job 1: 5)

from: Olympiodorus, Diaconus

Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Gr. 86 (Ms from Venice)

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice Bible, JobCalfManuscript

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Kapparot. Yom Kippur, the day before (1705)

from: from: Friedrich Albrecht Christiani, Der Juden Glaube und Aberblaub, Leipzig 1705, p. 102

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice ChickenJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesKapparot

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Killing of the Passover Lamb, putting blood on the lintel and the door-posts (1335-1340)

from: Rylands Sephardi Haggadah, Passover Haggadah (Catalonia, Spain)

Manchester, The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 6, fol. 19v

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BloodHaggadahJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesLambRitual SlaughteringSpain

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Manoah and his wife sacrificing [1430]

from: Psalterium romanum [Mantova]

Paris, BnF, Ms Latin 772, fol. 8

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice BibleFireManoahManuscript

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Marriage of Rama to Sita with Brahmins making fire sacrifice. Coloured transfer lithograph. Lettering includes Punjabi inscriptions (s.d.)

London, Wellcome Collection

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Brahminical RitesBrahminsHinduIndia

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Martyrdom of the prophet Zakarīyā (Zechariah) (XVI)

from: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A fol. 3

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BibleIranIslamMartyrdomPersiaQur'an

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Martyrdom of Zakariya (XVI)

from: ishâq nishâbûrî, qisas-i qur'ân. [Qazvin, Iran]

Paris, BnF, Persan 54, fol. 144v

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BibleHuman SacrificeIranIslamManuscriptMartyrdomPersiaQur'anZakarîyâ (Zacharias)

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Mass of St. Gregory (Aztec Amanteca, Mexican feather work)

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 4. Sacrifice and Eucharist (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: EucharistMexico

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Musei Borgiani Velitris. Tab I. Pictura exhibens sacrificium solis. Tav. II Pictura Indica autographa exhibens holocaustum ignis (1791)

from: Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, Rome 1791

New York Public Library

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice AntiquarianismBrahminical RitesFireHinduIndiaSacrifice ComparedVedic

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Musei Borgiani Velitris. Tab III pictura indica autographa exhibens sacrificium Túkam (1791)

from: Paulinus a S. Bartholomaeo, Systema Brahmanicum liturgicum, mythologicum, civile, Rome 1791

New York Public Library

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Brahminical RitesIndiaVedic

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Page from a manuscript of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. Above, Kṛṣṇa tells a group of cowherds, all standing in a line to go and ask the brahmin ladies who were then offering Vedic sacrifices. (1500)

from: Rajasthan (?)

The British Museum, London

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Brahminical RitesBrahminsIndiaVedic

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Pesah dorot (from the Birds’ Head Haggadah) (1300)

from: Birds’ Head Haggadah (Germany)

Israel Museum in Jerusalem

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1. Sacrifice and Bible (16^th-18^th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice HaggadahJewish SacrificeJewish StudiesLamb

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Photograph shows the Kapparot. Two girls and a boy reading from a book; each girl is holding a hen as a man holds a rooster over the head of the boy. (1901)

from: Photographic prints

Library of Congress, Washington DC

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: ChickenJewish StudiesKapparot

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Qābil (Cain) and the dead Hābil (Abel) (XVI)

from: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm: Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A fol. 3

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AbelHuman SacrificeIranIslamManuscriptPersia

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Queen Kaikeyi reminds King Dasharatha about the sacrifices of King Bali and King Shivi, (c. 1710)

from: folio 39 from the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Court of Amar Singh II

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: HinduIndiaKingshipRamayana

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Rishyasringa performing the ceremony for obtaining sons. He is shown chanting mantras and pouring obligations into a fire with the help of priests (1712)

from: Ramayana, Bala Kanda [Udaipur]

London, British Library, Add. 15295, f. 36

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2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireIndiaRamayana

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Ritual knife (grigug), Tibet (18th)

London, V&A Museum

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: BuddhismKnifeTibet