Sacrifice in pagan and Christian antiquity / Robert J. Daly, S.J., Boston College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daly, Robert J., 1933- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacrifice--History.

Sacrifice.

Sacrifice--Christianity--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages)

Edition:

1 [edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : T&T Clark, 2019.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Foreword Part I:

Introduction, Methodological and Hermeneutical Issues Preliminary Notes The History of Religions Postmodern Approaches The Elites in Antiquity and Christianity What Is Sacrifice? The Sacrificial World Confronting Ancient Christianity Sacrifice in Human History The Unity of the Ancient World of Sacrifice The "End" of Paganism? Part II:

The Greco-Roman Trajectory From Homer and Hesiod up to Heraclitus and Plato Anaximenes Theophrastus Philo of Alexandria Apollonius of Tyana Heliodorus of Emesa Plutarch Lucian Porphyry Iamblichus Sallust Symmachus Macrobius and the "End" of Paganism Part III:

The Jewish-Christian Trajectory Preliminary Note: The Many Meanings of Sacrifice

Transitional Note The Hebrew Scriptures Excursus 1: "Leave your gift there before the altar" (Matthew 5:24)

Excursus 2: Spiritualization The Christian Scriptures (New Testament) Early Christianity Preliminary Note: the General Situation Excursus 3: A Trinitarian View of Sacrifice Excursus 4: The Eucharist as Sacrifice Part IV:

Select Points of Comparison and Contrast Prayer and Sacrifice Divination and Sacrifice Ethics, Morality, and Sacrifice The Purpose of Sacrifice The Rhetoric of Sacrifice The "Economics" of Sacrifice Heroes and Saints Part V:

Concluding Summary and Looking Ahead

Index of Names Subject Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780567687036

0567687031

9780567687043

056768704X

9780567687029

0567687023

OCLC:

1113894495