Diversity of Sacrifice

Carrie Ann Murray is Assistant Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at Brock University.

• IntroductionThe Value and Power of SacrificeCarrie Ann Murray Part I. Defining and Redefining the Boundaries of Sacrifice 1. Anthropology and SacrificePhillips Stevens Jr.2. A View from a Fen: On the Concept of Sacrifice and the Possibility of Understanding Neolithic Wetland DepositionsAsa Berggren3. Gifts from the Gods: A New Look at Some Weapons and Vessels from the Metal AgesChristoph Huth4. Post-Domestic Sacrifice: Exploring the Present and Future of Gifts for the GodsSamantha HurnPart II. Sacrifice across the Mediterranean World 5. Every Good and Pure Thing: Sacrifice in the Ancient Egyptian ContextMary-Ann Pouls Wegner6. The Mythology of Carthaginian Child Sacrifice: A Physical Anthropological PerspectiveJeffrey H. Schwartz7. The Art of Ancient Greek Sacrifice: Spectacle, Gaze, PerformanceTyler Jo Smith8. Etruscan Human Sacrifice: The Case of TarquiniaNancy T. de GrummondPart III. Exploring Exceptional Cases of Sacrifice 9. Human Sacrifice as "Crisis Management? The Case of the Early Neolithic Site of Herxheim, Palatinate, GermanyAndrea Zeeb-Lanz, Rose-Marie Arbogast,Silja Bauer, Bruno Boulestin, Anne-Sophie Coupey, Anthony Denaire, Fabian Haack,Christian Jeunesse, Dirk Schimmelpfennig, Rouven Turck10. Dog Sacrifice at the Protohistoric Site of Mas Castellar (Pontos, Spain)Enriqueta Pons, Lidia Colominas, Maria Saña11. Understanding the Death and Burial of Northern European Bog BodiesGuinevere GranitePart IV. Formularizing and Regularizing Sacrifice12. Sacrificing the Sign: The Alphabet as an Offering in Ancient Israel, or A Classicist’s Read on the Ritual Law of the SotahRoger D. Woodard13. Ancient Greek Laws on SacrificeMichael Gagarin14. In What Way Is Christ’s Death a Sacrifice? Theories of Sacrifice and Theologies of the CrossS. Mark HeimContributorsIndex