Topic: 1. Sacrifice and Bible (16th-18th Century)
The Bible, with its plethora of examples of sacrifice and self-sacrifice, plays a pivotal role in shaping the discourse on sacrifice in the early modern world.
This section includes:
- Sources: A broad selection of early modern writings, encompassing biblical exegesis, theological and philosophical interpretations, various translations, prayer books, and hymns.
- Iconographic Representations: This visual collection showcases early modern depictions of biblical sacrifices, including key scenes like the Sacrifice of Isaac as interpreted in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
- Related Bibliography: Complemented by a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly works from the 19th to 21st centuries, offering modern perspectives and analyses of these historical interpretations.
La Aqedah. Il sacrificio di Isacco: commenti ebraici attraverso i secoli
Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2021.
The Sacrifice of Isaac: The Aqedah (Genesis 22) and its Interpretations
Leiden - Boston - Cologne: Brill, 2002.
Sacrifice, Cult, and Atonement in Early Judaism and Christianity: Constituents and Critique
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2017.
Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.
Shepherd sacrificing Ram
from: Book of Meshal Ha-Kadmoni (from Germany)
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. hebr. 107 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 107), fol. 24
R. Mosis Majemonidae De sacrificiis liber: Accesserunt Abarbanelis Exordium commentariorum in Leviticum : quo omnis omnium sacrificiorum ratio breviter ac dilucidè disputatur.
London: Flesher, 1683.
The Christians daily sacrifice duly offer'd, or, A practical discourse teaching the right performance of prayer
London: Robert Clavel, 1698.
De translatione SS. Martyrum Georgii monachi, Aurelii et Nathaliae ex urbe Corduba Parisios.
in: Patrologiae Cursus Completus, sive bibliotheca universalis ... omnium S.S. Patrum, Doctorum, Scriptorumque ecclesiasticorum qui ab aevo apostolico ad Innocentii III tempora floruerunt ... Series Secunda [ 1841 - 1864 ], pp. 939 - 960
Paris: Apud Garnier [...], 1852.
Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles Wherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke
London: M. Flesher ; J. Haviland ; John Bellamie, 1627.
Cain and Abel Sacrifice (1500 - 1515)
Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum, Cambridge
Sacrificio di Isacco [1509 - 1513]
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Significación del término Martyrium en los libros II y III del Memoriale Sanctorum de S. Eulogio.
in: Boletín de la Real Academia de Córdoba de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes, v. 77 (1999), issue : pp.261 - 278.
The Passover Sacrifice
in: Sacrifice in the Bible, pp. 1-24
Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1995.
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1526-1532)
Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid