{"product_id":"the-value-of-a-human-life-von-undefined","title":"The Value of a Human Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much has been written about this, and research and discussion about ritual killing continue. This book offers contributions to this on-going discussion, by a re-evaluation of the term human sacrifice, arguing that not all forms of ritual killing can be considered to be sacrificial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExperts from different disciplines present new insights into the subject of ritual homicide in various regions of the ancient world. Various aspects of the phenomenon are discussed, such as offering humans to gods, making servants accompany their masters into the hereafter, and ritual killing in connection with execution of criminals and captives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile in some cultures ritual killing was accepted, others would consider it a symptom of barbarism and would use it as a reason or pretext for hostility, war, or genocide. Thus the Romans justified the violence against Carthage partly because of this, early Christians were accused of infanticide, while in turn they accused Jews of the same. The Spanish conquistadores used the argument to justify the genocide on indigenous Americans. The last chapter concerns one of the last surviving forms of ritual killing in recent history: headhunting among the Asmat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman sacrifice and ritual killing, defining the field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarel C. Innemée\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual killing of humans in ancient Mesopotamia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheo Krispijn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual Homicide in ancient Egypt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacobus van Dijk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSacrifice and ritual killing of humans in the Etruscan world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBouke van der Meer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoenician synthesis: patterns of human sacrifice and problems with ritual killing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrien Garnand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman sacrifice from ancient Israel to early Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarel C. Innemée\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeconstructing the Aztec human sacrifice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaarten Jansen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath and new life: an intimate relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePieter ter Keurs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789464260564\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9789464260564","offer_id":40150775562333,"sku":"9789464260564","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/378c3fdd-216d-4993-a873-f07c0a9fc34b.jpg?v=1776409057","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-value-of-a-human-life-von-undefined","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}