Reprint of the 1925 edition

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The theory of sacrifice -- 1. Sacrifice and sacred offerings i -- 2. Sacrifice and sacred offerings, ii -- 3. Sacrifice and sacred offerings, iii -- 4. Sacrifice, propitiation, and expiation, i -- 5. Sacrifice, propitiation, and expiation, ii -- 6. Sacrifice, propitiation, and expiation, iii -- The altar -- 7. Literary and archaeological evidence -- 8. Earlier history -- 9. Later history -- 10. That sacrificial service in heaven, I -- 11. The sacrificial service in heaven, ii -- The Hebrew Priesthood -- 12. The terms for cultic persons -- 13. The Mosaic priesthood -- 14. The early priesthood -- 15. Later limitations and extensions -- 16. The Levitical priesthood -- 17. The high priest -- The festivals -- 18. The festal calendars -- 19. New year's day and some other festivals -- 20. The day of atonement -- 21. The sheaf -- 22. The Paschal victim -- 23. The blood ritual of the Passover -- 24. The Paschal meal -- Passover and the New Testament -- Appendix -- I. Note on the materials of sacrifice -- II. Minaean inscriptions illustrating ch. iv -- III. Selection from the Megillath Taanith -- Indexes -- I. General -- II. Authors cited -- III. Arabic words and phrases -- IV. Assyrian words and phrases -- V. Greek words and phrases -- VI. Hebrew and Aramaic words and phrases -- VII. Biblical references -- (a) Old Testament -- (b) Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha -- (c) New Testament -- VIII. Post-Biblical Jewish references -- (a) Rabbinic -- (b) Greek