Sacrifice in the Old Testament by G. Buchanan Gray

Today’s free book is G. Buchanan Gray’s study of Sacrifice. This book was published posthumously from the “nearly complete” notes from a series of lectures delivered by Gray before the University of Oxford. This public domain title was digitised from a copy held at Spurgeon’s College library.

George Buchanan Gray [1865-1922], Sacrifice in the Old Testament. Its Theory in Practice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. Hbk. pp.434. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Editorial Note
• A List of Dr Gray’s Published Contributins to Old Testament Studies
• Abbreviations
• Addenda et Corrigenda
• 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. The 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 Levitcal 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
  • 25. The Passover and the New Testament
• Appendix
  1. Note on the Materials of Sacrifice
  2. Minaean Inscriptions illustrating ch. iv
  3. Selection from the Megillath Ta’anith
• Indexes
  1. General
  2. Authors cited
  3. Arabic words and phrases
  4. Assyrian words and phrases
  5. Greek words and phrases
  6. Biblical references
     1. Old Testament
     2. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
     3. New Testament
  7. Post-biblical Jewish References
     1. Rabbinic
     2. Greek

Dr Gray’s International Commentaries on Numbers and Isaiah and his work on The Forms of Hebrew Poetry are also available for free download.

Main image: Agnus Dei, by Francisco de Zurbarán. 38 cm × 62 cm. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Source: Wikipedia