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Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the
ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of
bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language
in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have
seemed unsettling and radically challenging to the pagan mind.
Acknowledging the difficulties posed by an overwhelmingly Christian
scholarly narrative around the topic of sacrifice, Daly
specifically sets out to tell the non-Christian side of this story.
He first outlines the pagan trajectory, and then the
Jewish-Christian trajectory, before concluding with a
representative series of comparisons and contrasts. Covering the
concept of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality,
the rhetoric and economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes
and saints, Daly finishes with an estimation of how this study
might inform further study of sacrifice.
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