Religion of the Semites: The Fundamental Institutions

ISBN-13: 9781138531789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 507 str.

Robert A. Segal

Opis

Scottish Semiticist and Arabist William Robertson Smith was a celebrated biblical critic, theorist of religion, and theorist of myth

Spis treści

I: Introduction: The Subject and the Method of Enquiry; II: The Nature of the Religious Community, and the Relation of the Gods to Their Worshippers; III: The Relations of the Gods to Natural Things—Holy Places—The Jinn; IV: Holy Places in Theib Relation to Man; V: Sanctuaries, Natural and Artificial. — Holy Waters, Trees, Caves, and Stones; VI: Sacrifice—Preliminary Survey; VII: First-Fruits, Tithes, and Sacrificial Meals; VIII: The Original Significance of Animal Sacrifice; IX: The Sacramental Efficacy of Animal Sacrifice, and Cognate Acts of Ritual — The Blood Covenant—Blood and Hair Offerings; X: The Development of Sacrificial Ritual—Fire-Sacrifices and Piacula; XI: Sacrificial Gifts and Piacular Sacrifices—The Special Ideas Involved in the Latter

O autorze

William Smith