Table of Contents Preface VII HUMAN SACRIFICE INJUDEO-CHRISTIAN AND OTHER ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS Beate Pongratz-Leisten: Ritual Killing and Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East 3 Gabriele Weiler: Human Sacrifice in Greek Culture 35 Michaela Bauks: The Theological Implications of Child Sacrifice in and beyond the Biblical Context in Relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 ... 65 Karin Finsterbusch: The First-Born between Sacrifice and Redemption in the Hebrew Bible 87 Armin Lange: "They Burn Their Sons and Daughters. That Was No Command of Mine" (Jer 7:31). Child Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible and in the Deuteronomistic Jeremiah Redaction 109 Bennie H. Reynolds: Molek: Dead or Alive? The Meaning and Derivation ofmlk and "]Va 133 Katell Berthelot: Jewish Views of Human Sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman Period 151 Tal Ilan: Gender Difference and the Rabbis. Bat Yiftah as Human Sacrifice 175 VI TABLE OF CONTENTS Peter Lampe: Human Sacrifice and Pauline Christology 191 HUMAN SACRIFICE IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS Rainer Walz: The Collective Suicides in the Persecutions of 1096 as Sacrificial Acts 213 Jasper Hopkins: God's Sacrifice of Himself as a Man. Anselm of Canterbury's Cur deus homo 237 Christopher Roberts: Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling," the Sacrifice of Isaac, and the Critique of Christendom 259 Viktor von Weizsacker: "Euthanasia" and Experiments on Human Beings [Part I: "Euthanasia"] (1947). With an Introduction by UDO BENZENHOFER and WILHELM RIMPAU 277 Yaakov Ariel: Still Ransoming the First-Born Sons? Pidyon Habben and Its Survival in the Jewish Tradition 305 Randall Styers: Slaughter and Innocence: The Rhetoric of Sacrifice in Contemporary Arguments Supporting the Death Penalty 321 INDICES Subjects 355 References 360.