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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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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