The extreme sacrifice of a cannibal mother in the siege of Jerusalem
The paper explores the Jewish reception of a paradoxically sacrificial narrative (found already in Josephus’ De bello iudaico) involving a mother cannibalizing her son during the 70 ce siege of Jerusalem. The sources addressed include rabbinic a ma‘aseh from midrash Sifra (3rd-century Palestine), a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Henoch
Year: 2024, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 350-365 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rabbinic literature
/ Jewish literature
/ Cannibalism
/ Ladin dialect
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| Further subjects: | B
Ladino Poetry
B Cannibalism B Medieval Hebrew Literature B Rabbinic Literature |
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