The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian Discourses in Conflict. By George Heyman
This is a thoughtful and wide-ranging work in which Heyman explores the similarities between the rhetoric of sacrifice in Graeco-Roman paganism and in early Christianity. He concludes that Christians drew from the same pool of ideas about sacrifice as the Romans did, but that they arranged those ide...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 318-321 |
| Review of: | The power of sacrifice (Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, 2007) (Pulleyn, Simon)
The power of sacrifice (Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, 2007) (Pulleyn, Simon) |
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| Summary: | This is a thoughtful and wide-ranging work in which Heyman explores the similarities between the rhetoric of sacrifice in Graeco-Roman paganism and in early Christianity. He concludes that Christians drew from the same pool of ideas about sacrifice as the Romans did, but that they arranged those ideas to create a very different discourse (p. 219). Heyman explores in detail numerous texts from Graeco-Roman antiquity and puts them alongside material from the New Testament and early martyrologies to show how martyrdom was viewed, in some Christian circles, as a species of sacrifice—like the devotio of Decimus Mus as described by Livy (pp. 40, 231). Heyman disagrees (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp135 |