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Author: Jennifer Wright Knust Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199876401 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 349
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An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199876401 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 349
Book Description
An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.
Author: Christopher A. Faraone Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107011124 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199738963 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 349
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An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.
Author: M.-Z. Petropoulou Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0199218544 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 349
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A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity between 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice, and the reasons why they ultimately rejected it.
Author: F. S. Naiden Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190232714 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 438
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Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient Mediterranean religions since the 18th century. Two leading views on sacrifice have dominated the subject: the psychological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological one by Jean-Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne. These two perspectives have argued that the main feature of sacrifice is allaying feelings of guilt at the slaughter of sacrificial animals. Naiden redresses the omission of these salient features to show that animal sacrifice is an attempt to make contact with a divine being, and that it is so important for the worshippers that it becomes subject to regulations of unequaled extent and complexity.
Author: Sarah Hitch Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110821004X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
Author: Sandra Blakely Publisher: Lockwood Press ISBN: 1948488175 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 597
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This volume brings together scholars in religion, archaeology, philology, and history to explore case studies and theoretical models of converging religions. The twenty-four essays offered in this volume, which derive from Hittite, Cilician, Lydian, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman cultural settings, focus on encounters at the boundaries of cultures, landscapes, chronologies, social class and status, the imaginary, and the materially operative. Broad patterns ultimately emerge that reach across these boundaries, and suggest the state of the question on the study of convergence, and the potential fruitfulness for comparative and interdisciplinary studies as models continue to evolve.
Author: Daniel C. Ullucci Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199791708 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 238
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Sacrifice dominated the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean world for millennia, but its role and meaning changed dramatically with the rise of Christianity. Ullucci explores this transformation, in the process demonstrating the complexity of the concept of sacrifice in Roman, Greek, and Jewish religion.
Author: Barbette Stanley Spaeth Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521113962 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 383
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Provides an introduction to the major religions of the ancient Mediterranean and explores current research regarding the similarities and differences among them.
Author: Albert Henrichs Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110449242 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 632
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This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on numerous subjects in ancient Greek myth and religion. What was ancient Greek religion really like? What is the reality of belief and action that lies behind the unwieldy sources, which stem from vast areas and epochs of the ancient world? What is the meaning, intended and otherwise, of religious action and speech in ancient Greece? Who were the Greek gods, how were they worshipped, and how were they viewed by those who worshipped them? One of the leading students of ancient Greek religion over the past five decades, Albert Henrichs, the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University, combines wide and deep learning, a pragmatic, incisive approach to the sources, and an apt use of comparative perspectives. Henrichs breaks new ground in discussing sacrifice, libation, cultic identity, religious action and speech, epiphany, and the personalities of the gods. Special attention is devoted to ancient Greek sources on the ancient Persian prophet Mani, founder of Manichaeism. As a group, Albert Henrichs’ papers on Greek religion offer a basic education on Greek myth and religion and constitute a blueprint for serious study of the subject.
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust
Author: Christopher A. Faraone
Author: Jennifer Wright Knust
Author: M.-Z. Petropoulou
Author: F. S. Naiden
Author: Sarah Hitch
Author: Sandra Blakely
Author: Daniel C. Ullucci
Author: Barbette Stanley Spaeth
Author: Albert Henrichs