The supper of the lamb:
Miles, Jack
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...It was once their custom to capture a between the refined English scholar and the wild tribe of bearcub, raise it for a time as a child among their own children, hunters...
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...A PRIMITIVE RITUAL & CHRISTIAN TOTEMISM i I UM The supper of the lamb JACK MILES He then takes the cup, salutes it, and divides the contents-a very small portion to each-among all the 0 NE of the most widely anthologized of all anthropologi- assembled guests, for it seems to be absolutely essential cal reports is John Batchelor's 1901 description of the that each person, young and old alike, should take a little Ainu ritual of bearcub sacrifice...
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...But if the god propitiated is the tribe in its fated aroused by the sacrifice of a young, trusting animal, particu- capacity to unmake individual lives in the interest of the larly when the animal has been treated as a child, are thus by collective life, then its appeal, perhaps particularly in 1901, design quite close to those that were once aroused by the could have been overwhelming, for the Victorian "tribe" was sacrifice of a child...
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...No to speak, the blood of the lamb is splashed on every doorjamb...
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...But tian "Supper of the Lamb" and the Ainu "Supper of the even the symbolic sacrifice of a member of one's own species Cub...
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...It is said that they must be careful not to allow I do not mean to confine the meaning of the sacrifice the poor beast to utter any cries during its death strug- needlessly...
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...my blood which will be poured out for you"-are taken to In the New Testament "Letter to the Hebrews," the words establish a covenant relationship not just with the Jews but of Psalm 40 are put in the mouth of Jesus: with all men...
...We have nourished thee and Their smearing themselves with blood in the hope of becoming brought thee up with a deal of pain and trouble, all great hunters-this remained alien to him...
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...No animal is substituted for eat is a human being, Jesus Christ...
...Alyosha, after conceding Hughes: to his brother Ivan that it would be wrong to build a just society What is it this time, the dark barn again on the unexpiated blood of even one victim, as if anyone could Where men jerk me off my feet forgive a crime committed against a third party, goes on to And shout over me with murder voices insist that the victim himself does have the right to forgive...
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...they will make war on the Lamb, Something close to this inheres in the structure of the Ainu and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords sacrifice, I feel...
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...Let us quires, however, not just that Jesus be a sacrificial animal but presume only the latter as we ask ourselves a few questions that he be a totem animal...
...I speculate, of course, but it seems just possible to The choice of the lamb as totem animal now comes to seem me that some of the tenderness of Hindel's setting of "Behold sinister, for this is the animal that goes compliantly to its ownthe Lamb" may have found its way into Batchelor's feeling for Commonweal: 212 Enrich your family's understanding of the Bible MARYKNOLL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Center for Mission Studies Maryknoll, New York 10545 THIRD WORLD THEOLOGIES IN DIALOGUE: June 11 July 20, 1979 Graduate mission forum for a deeper understanding of local theologies from Asia, Africa and Latin America...
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...the members of one species and another, Jesus, as a human Before it was applied to Jesus by Christians, the title "Lamb being, is an automatic totem for all human beings...
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...I find a kind of confirmation in this reading of awry, the good fortune of some resting always somehow in the the "Hallelujah Chorus" in the fact that, though the chorus ill fortune of others, that it is hard with utter confidence to nowhere mentions war or gratitude for delivery, it has often . object to anything...
...There FOR ME, however, the best expression of the buoyant hope cannot really be a crime if there are not two people, one the that the Lamb can stand for comes, though few would hear perpetrator and the other the victim...
...this situation had a potential as melodrama that just isn't there Happy are those who are called to his supper...
...So, in its own way, the Christian ritual is totemistic after all...
...Not to partake of this feast and not to because Batchelor's personal reaction to the sacrifice was that make inao would be tantamount to confessing oneself uncanny mixture of revulsion and tenderness that is the im- outside the pale of Ainu fellowship...
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...But if we can answer these questions, I think we may then I said, gain an important insight into why the Christian ritual has just as I was commanded in the scroll of the book, survived and how a memory of it might have affected Batch`God, here I am...
...And yet one senses, particularly in The Ainu, to say just a word about them, are an ethnically his translations of the prayers, some deep attraction...
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...and while the men danced, a portion object of making men happy in the end, giving them of the cub's flesh was boiled into a kind of soup...
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...totem animal will do but another human being, and he must not The words of Jesus-"This is the cup of the new covenant in die symbolically but actually...
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...this appears to me to be the special way in which he because Batchelor wrote well, though he did, nor because the shows his social and religious fellowship with his totem sacrifice is anthropologically instructive, but also, as I see it, god and the people...
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...Or a scrappy little bearcub holy by the "offering" of his "body" made once and of a guy...
...He is abolishing the first sort [of sacrifice] to replace the subtle and intimate appreciation of the human condition...
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...Then, without really denying that God is of the Supper of the Lamb as a ritual is the Christian belief that the ultimate perpetrator, Alyosha counters that God is also the things have not always been, nor will they always be, as they ultimate victim of every crime...
...Geza Vermes writes: warn off the Angel of Death, and then cook and eat the flesh of In short, the binding of Isaac was thought to have played the lamb in preparation for their flight from Egypt...
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...Will you consent to be the architect on these conditions...
...The fortunes of men are similarly so quering Lamb...
...We have the mentality of that guy in the sacrifice is still there, and so is the bounding, defiant, unrea- cartoon commercial who's offered an Hawaiian "Punch," sonable, indomitable hope for justice...
...It is as if despite all efforts at totemization, Christian adaptation of Jewish Passover symbolism is that, so the difference between man and animal is just too great...
...For Information, Write: Rev...
...In his capacity as producer of the film he could give himself, the stage was well...
...animal as expression of the naive social contract- "I have Gerald Morris...
...monologue of Camus's "judge-penitent" in The Fall: guilty Surely no cultivated Englishman of the turn of the last of everything, innocent of everything, resisting no misfortune century could have failed to hear and hear often Handel's "The...
...The tender apology made to the cub is made to all the eager to assist in squeezing the animal till life is quite casualties of social order...
...legendary cowboy who is his namesake...
...gets socked in the jaw, and says with a smile, "Thanks, I needed that...
...Room and Board per week, $85.00...
...Sister Kathleen Flan- been good, so no evil will befall me," so, with the same agan, S.C...
...Not all are equally unjust...
...In universal victim, if all crimes are committed against him, then the center of the splendid mosaic dome at Ravenna, representhe does not overstep himself in forgiving all crimes...
...Among the Jews of antiquity, for example, the firstborn ents, if the plea, in effect, was "Was are giving you one male had to be redeemed, ransomed, in the Temple by the `child,' please leave us the rest," its appeal would not be sacrifice of a lamb or another animal or offering...
...But there is a Being and He can forgive and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent so he opened not his mouth...
...But if God is the stands the non-resistance to evil that the Lamb symbolizes...
...It the death of the firstborn...
...As if to say, "Look as high as you can, stretch as far against him...
...In any cycle of crime, it now, in Hindel's "Hallelujah Chorus...
...We forget-we desire powerfully to forget-that PASTORAL RENEWAL PERSONAL RENEWAL the two are separable...
...what he takes away is the psychological possi- And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have bility of innocent victimized, undeserved suffering...
...M1CH 49503 13 April 1979: 213 GRADUATE SUMMER PROGRAMS at Immaculate Conception Seminary M.DIV...
...in THEOLOGY PROFESSORS: Mark J. Ciganovich, Edward J. Ciuba, Francis A. DeTWO SESSIONS: Domenico, Doris K. Donnelly, Philip J. Dowling, Stephen June 25-July 13, 1979 S. Feehan, Gail M. Giacalone, Charles W. Gusmer, JoJuly 16-August 3, 1979 seph W. Kukura, Richard M. Liddy, Frederick L. Moriarty, Philip D. Morris, Thomas D. Pictin, Arthur J. Serratelli...
...I mean simply that there is no rhyme or reason and King of kings, and those with him are called and in why one lucky cub should be taken in from the forest and chosen and faithful...
...Whatever dramatic potenus"-reaches every concert-goer as the climax of the classical tial it may have had in the past, for us this kind of situation is concert Masses...
Vol. 106 • April 1979 • No. 7
