New book: Maternal Sacrifices. A New Gaze at Sacrificial Patterns in Jewish Cultures, edited by Elisa Carandina, Henoch (46/2, 2024)
Maternal Sacrifices. A New Gaze at Sacrificial Patterns in Jewish Cultures, edited by Elisa Carandina, Henoch (46/2, 2024). This thematic issue explores maternal sacrifice from multiple perspectives—textual, historical, and visual—offering new insights into Jewish cultures across different periods.The volume includes the following thematic contributions:
• Elisa Carandina, Introduction.
• Corrado Martone, Daughters of Truth and Mothers of the Community. Some Observations on the Elusive Women of Qumran.
• Isabella Scortegagna, The Sacrifice of the Suspected Adulteress. Anthropological Notes of mSoṭah.
• Shana Strauch Schick, Mothers in Rabbinic Retellings of Exodus 2. Between Greco-Roman Palestine and Sasanian Persia.
• Ilaria Briata, The Extreme Sacrifice of a Cannibal Mother in the Siege of Jerusalem.
• Elisa Carandina, Rewriting the Sacrificial Pattern in Michal Heiman’s Project Lying Women.
The Table of Contents, Introduction, and abstracts are available on the Henoch website.
The issue will soon be available for purchase both in print format through Morcelliana and in digital format, with each article downloadable via the Torrossa platform.