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.
Abraham's Sacrifice [1750 - 1775]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1270-1280)
from: Psalter, St John College, Cambridge, MS K.26 fol. 10r
St John College, Cambridge
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1212-1220)
from: Psalter, Oxford, MS M.43 fol. 11r
Morgan Library and Museum, New York
Loores del dignissimo Lugar de Calvario: en que se relata todo lo que nuestro redemptor Jesus hizo y dixo en el, conforme al texto del sacro evangelio, perteneciente a su passion, muerte, sepultura y resurrection
Alcalá de Henares: Salzedo, 1551.
Disputatio philologico-theologica, de sacrificio jugi prima: sive codex Talmudicus Tamid ex hebraeo sermone in latinum versus et commentariis illustratus. Quam volente Deo T.O.M. sub praesidio d. Johannis Vander Waeyen S. S. Theologiae doctoris, eiusque Facultatis ac Literaturae Hebraicae Professoris Clarissimi, Academici Concionatoris Facundissimi, Celsissimo Nassaviae Principi a Sanctioribus Consiliis defendet Michael Arnoldi Franeq. Frisius A. & R.
Franeker: Johann Gyselaer, 1680.
Castillo inexpugnable defensorio de la fee y concionatorio admirable para vencer a todos enemigos espirituales y corporales. Y verdadera relacion de las cosas maravillosas antiguas y modernas. Y exortacion para ir contra el turco: y le vencer y anichilar la secta de Mahoma y toda infidelidad y ganar la tierra sancta con famoso y bienaventurado triumpho
Burgos: Juan de Junta, 1528.
Sacrifice of Isaac [1585 - 1650]
Louvre, Paris
The sacrifice of Abel [1500-1542]
Louvre, Paris
The Sacrifice of Isaac
from: Germany
Frankfurt Stadtbibliothek, Ms. Hebr. Oct. 31, fol. 21v
Offering, Sacrifice and Gift
in: Numen, v. 23 (), issue 3: pp.161-178.
Libelli duo in misoliturgos, hoc est, missae osores quorum prior de Iudaeorum paganorumque sacrificiis generatim, posterior vero de unico Christianorum sacrificio late tractat
Gand: Cornelius Manilius, 1556.
Homilia De Abrahami sacrificio
Geneva: Iohannes Le Preux, 1602.
The Sacrifice of Abraham : the Cretan Biblical Drama E thusia tou Abraam and Western European and Greek Tradition
Birmingham: Ibadan University of Birmingham, 1978.
The Sacrifice. A sermon upon psalm 51,17
[Oxford]: T.W. ; W. Lee, 1655.
The triumph of faith The sacrifice of Isaac. The ship-wracke of Ionas. With a song of the victorie obtained by the French king, at Yvry. Written in French, by W. Salustius lord of Bartas, and translated by Iosuah Siluester, marchant aduenturer
[London]: Richard Yardley, 1592.