Shorter Reviews and Notices -- the Temple of Jesus: His Sacrificial Program within a Cultural History of Sacrifice by Bruce Chilton

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THE TEMPLE OF JESUS: HIS SACRIFICIAL PROGRAM WITHIN A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SACRIFICE, by Bruce Chilton. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1992. 209 pp. $34.50. ISBN 0-271-00824-5.

This book undertakes two projects: to reconstruct the attitude of the historical Jesus towards levitical purity and sacrifice; and then to interpret that attitude within the context of a general theory of the meaning of sacrifice in human culture. The first two chapters deal with the important theories of sacrifice in the social sciences and the subsequent chapters with the historical material pertinent to the time and person of Jesus. There are two appendices on the theory of …