books by David Janzen (communities witch-hunts zeitschrift)

books by David Janzen

books:

The Social Meanings Of Sacrifice In The Hebrew Bible: A Study Of Four Writings (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift Fur ...
David Janzen

Walter de Gruyter, 2004

This work uses anthropological theory and field studies to investigate the social function and meaning of sacrifice. All rituals, including sacrifice, communicate social beliefs and morality, but these cannot be determined outside of a study of the social context. Thus, there is no single explanation for sacrifice - such as those advanced by Rene Girard or Walter Burkert or late-19th and early-20th century scholars. The book then examines four ...

The Princeton Seminary Bulletin (Volume XXVI, Number 2, New Series, 2005)
Iain R. Torrance, Brian K. Blount, ..., 2005

Listening Starter 3 (w/2 Audio CDs)
Andrea Janzen; Linda Kilpatrick-Lee

Compass Publishing, 2007

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Witch-Hunts, Purity and Social Boundaries: The Expulsion of the Foreign Women in Ezra 9-10 (Journal for the ...
David Janzen

Sheffield Academic Press, 2002

This anthropological approach to the expulsion of the foreign women from the post-exilic community argues that it was the result of a witch-hunt. Its comparative approach notes that the community responded to its weak social boundaries in the same fashion as societies with similar social weaknesses. Janzen argues that the post-exilic community's decision to expel the foreign women in its midst was the direct result of the community's inability ...

Fire, Salt, and Peace: Intentional Christian Communities Alive in North America

2 reviews
David Janzen

Plough Publishing House, 1997

Useful, Inspiring, Dated
I read this book when it was first published, finding myself resonating and "in tune" to the essays which preface and follow the community description pages. The work itself is a great testament to the value of intentional Christian community as a way of life and a way of "being the Church". (I was once a member of Plow Creek Fellowship (a lifetime ago, it now seems) and was thrilled to read ...