The volume consists of collected papers from Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology conferences examining (1) the role of sacrifice in religious experience from a comparative perspective and
Presented at the April 2008 Conference held at the David and Jemima Jeselsohn Center for Epigraphy at Bar-Ilan U. in Israel, the 14 articles of this collection concern evidence for specific aspects of
These papers were delivered at the first international colloquium of the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center at Bar Ilan University. They investigate concepts of Self, Soul and Body across the religious tradi