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Maria-Zoe PetropoulouAnimal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 Price: £60.00 (Hardback) A sample of this book is available in PDF format http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199218547&WT.mc_id=RELIGHISTORYNEWS |
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| A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity during the period of their interaction between about 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in the Greek East and in the Jerusalem Temple (up to AD 70), Maria-Zoe Petropoulou explores the attitudes of early Christians towards this practice. Contrary to other studies in this area, she demonstrates that the process by which Christianity finally separated its own cultic code from the strong tradition of animal sacrifice was a slow and difficult one. Petropoulou places special emphasis on the fact that Christians gave completely new meanings to the term `sacrifice’. She also explores the question why, if animal sacrifice was of prime importance in the eastern Mediterranean at this time, Christians should ultimately have rejected it. |
Readership: Scholars and students of the early Christian Church, of ancient Greek religion, of the history of Judaism.
| Authors, editors, and contributors |
| Maria-Zoe Petropoulou, Ancient Historian, at present working as a teacher on the International Baccalaureate Program of the Hellenic American Foundation, Athens |