Keyword: Animal Sacrifice
Pobre de los Indios. De seis animales que comen que temen. (1615)
from: Guamán Poma de Ayala, F. Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [1616]. Manuscript conserved in the København, Det Kongelige Bibliotek [ Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark ], GKS 2232 4° [fol. 694].
Aaron and his sons sacrificing a ram, as described in Exodus 29:13-22 (1731)
from: Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, Physica Sacra (Kupfer-Bibel), Augsburg and Ulm, Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735, vol. 2, p. 324
Lowcountry Digital Library
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 Sacrifice of Elijah (1543)
from: Historiarum Veteris Testamenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyon, Subscuto coloniensis, apud Ioannem & Franciscum Frellonios, frates, 1543
Louvre, Paris
Four Classical Figures (Pagan Sacrifice) (1638)
Metropolitan Museum, New York
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
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
Noah preparing his first sacrifice after the Flood (1700-1760)
Wellcome Collection, London
Hunting, Sacrifice and the Domestication of Animals
in: The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations, pp.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
0. General bibliography (19th-21th Century) 2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16th-18th Century)
From the Master’s Point of View : Hunting is Sacrifice
in: ournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, v. 21 (2015), issue 1: pp.24-27.
The Athenians sacrifice to the newborn Minerva (1629)
from: Philostratus of Lemnos. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates, sophistes grecs, et les Statues de Callistrate, tr. Blaise de Vigenère. Paris. 1629, p. 510
Warburg Institute
Chap. 2: Rites
in: The religion and rituals of the nomads of pre-Islamic Arabia : a reconstruction based on the Safaitic inscriptions, pp. 17-55
Leiden: Brill (Open Access), 2022.
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Zoroastrianism: a Ritual and its Interpretations
in: Sacrifice in Religious Experience, pp. 127-148
Leiden: Brill, 2002.
Problems of the Meat Market of Béziers 1240-1247: A Question of Anti-Semitism
in: Revue des Études juives, v. 135 (1976), issue 1-3: pp.31-49.
Du divin à l’humain, du religieux au social : les repas sacrificiels au Liban
in: Sacrifices en Islam: Espaces et temps d'un rituel, pp. 199-213
Paris: CNRS, 1999.