2013. Ritual Problems: Offering and Sacrificing (original) (raw)
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Ritual Problems: Offering and Sacrificing by Jan-Mathieu Carbon explores the complexities and nuances of ancient Greek offering rituals. The critique highlights theoretical perspectives on 'offering' and emphasizes the importance of context in understanding these rituals, questioning the validity of terminologies used in scholarly discussions. The review addresses various scholars' interpretations of sacrificial practices and identifies terminological inconsistencies, suggesting a need for more careful consideration of terms like 'victim' versus 'sacrificial animals' and the significance of rituals in the relationship between worshippers and deities.
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Launched in 2017, the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms provides an open-access commentary on selected ancient Greek inscriptions which define parameters of ritual practice. These short notes address two issues superficially concerning the name of the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, but more deeply engaging with what one means by the notion of 'ritual norm' and what one implies in considering such norms 'Greek'. A term like 'cult regulation' might conveniently be used to replace the misnomer 'sacred law', but this encompasses a similarly broad and miscellaneous group of inscriptions. By contrast, the category of 'ritual norm' aims to reframe the discussion by focussing on normativity – paradigms and exceptions – with regard to two key rituals, sacrifice and purification. It thus only partly reprises the corpus of 'sacred laws', while also including other inscriptions or excerpts from them. Calling such norms 'Greek' is not int...
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