The social meanings of sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible : a study of four writings - Janzen, David (Berlin de Gruyter, 2004)
Introduction -- The rhetorics of ritual -- Ritual and ritualized morality -- Theology, worldview, and ideology -- The study of sacrifice in biblical studies -- Sacrifice in the priestly writing -- Sacrifice and the king in the Deuteronomistic history -- Perfect slaughter : sacrifice as warning and promise in the Deuteronomistic history -- Sacrifice as cultic expression of the law : social and geographic separation in Ezra-Nehemiah -- Rest, peace, and quiet : sacrifice in Chronicles -- Conclusion: Sacrifice, God, and the people.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Sacrifice -- Biblical teaching