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003			OCoLC
005			20240726102238.0
008			070809s2008 enk b 001 0 eng
010			_a2007033021
020			_a9780199218547
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dC#P _dBAKER _dBWX _dYDXCP _dUBY _dOCLCQ _dMNE _dBTCTA _dTTU _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dSBI
049			_aSBIM
050	0	4	_aBL570.P497.A556 2008
100	1		_aPetropoulou, M.-Z., _e1
245	1	0	_aAnimal sacrifice in ancient Greek religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC--AD 200 / _cMaria-Zoe Petropoulou. _hPR
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c(c)2008.
300			_axii, 336 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford classical monographs
504			_a1 (pages 297-319) and indexes.
505	0	0	_aApproaching the issue of sacrifice -- _tGreek animal sacrifice in the period 100 BC to AD 200 -- _tFrom Greek religion to Judaism: a bridge -- _tJewish animal sacrifice in the period 100 BC to AD 200 -- _tA bridge linking Greek religion and Judaism to Christianity -- _tChristians and animal sacrifice in the period up to AD 200 -- _tConclusions.
520	1		_a"In this study of the ritual of animal sacrifice in ancient Greek religion, Judaism, and Christianity in the period between 100 BC and AD 200, Maria-Zoe Petropoulou challenges the common assumption that an objection to the practice of animal sacrifice was present in Christianity from the beginning. After briefly presenting the main scholarly interpretations of sacrifice, Petropoulou outlines her own theory, based upon the intersection of two axes, the vertical and the horizontal. Her focus is upon the horizontal axis - that of reality." "Drawing on a wide range of history and epigraphic material, Petropoulou demonstrates the vigorous and, at times, obligatory character of the tradition of animal sacrifice in Greek communities of the period - with the consequences that any possible objection to the practice would carry special weight. In the context of Judaism, she gives special attention to the writings of Philo, as evidence that animal sacrifice was important even to Jews living away from the Temple, and uses the mishnaic evidence, with caution, for the period after AD 70. Turning to Christianity, Petropoulou stresses that Christian objections to Jewish animal sacrifice - as opposed to criticism of explicitly pagan sacrifices - only come to the fore in the second century AD (although there are traces of this objection in the first century). The process by which Christianity finally separated its own cultic code from the existing tradition was in fact a slow and difficult one."--Jacket.
530			_a2
650		0	_aSacrifice _xHistory.
650		0	_aAnimal sacrifice _xHistory.
650		0	_aAnimals _xReligious aspects.
830		0	_aOxford classical monographs.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0724/2007033021.html
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell