SELF-SACRIFICE TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER IN JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS1
Although both the Jewish and Christian traditions permit and even valorize self-sacrificial death for the sake of God (martyrdom), and for other people, they diverge on the issue of self-sacrificial death for the sake of a single individual. The Jewish tradition prohibits such self-sacrifice on the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
2009
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Heythrop journal
Year: 2009, Volume: 50, Issue: 6, Pages: 912-922 |
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