Ancient Jews and Animal Sacrifice. "This American Life "

"Purity, Sacrifice and the Temple"

by religious studies scholar Jonathan Klawans 

http://books.google.com/books/about/Purity_Sacrifice_and_the_Temple_Symbolis.html?id=n2hFMiepEEgC

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/480/animal-sacrifice?act=0#play

480: Animal Sacrifice

NOV 30, 2012

What animals sacrifice for us, and what we sacrifice for them. Including a story from Susan Orlean about dogs in World War II, and the This American Life staff confronts Ira about his dog, Piney.

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  Ira admits there is a question he’s wanted to know the answer to since he was a kid in Hebrew school: Why is it that Jews don’t sacrifice animals anymore? Especially since the Old Testament is so clear that God wants it? Ira talks to religious studies scholar Jonathan Klawans to find out. Jonathan is the author of a book covering this subject, Purity, Sacrifice and the Temple. (5 minutes)animals • religion
  

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Dog wearing suicide bomb vest, 1943.