Maria‐Zoe Petropoulou
Biographic Data
| ID | 10757974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria‐Zoe Petropoulou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria‐Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Petropoulou |
| SIGNATURE | PETROPOULOU M Z |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
Next to older scholarly approaches to sacrifice, a new way of understanding the mechanism of animal sacrifice is presented in this book, based on the intersection of two axes: the one vertical (linking humans to the deity), the other horizontal (that of reality). The horizontal axis consists of many sections, each one representing a particular realm of the offerer's reality. The book emphasizes the vigorous continuity of both Greek and Jewish ani…
From Greek Religion to Judaism
This chapter acts as a bridge between the chapter on Greek animal sacrifice and the chapter on Jewish animal sacrifice. It provides the classicist who is not familiar with Judaism with the necessary information about the Jewish sacrificial system and its differences from the Greek one. The chapter also describes the main crises in the history of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem until its destruction by the Romans in AD 70.
Greek Animal Sacrifice in the Period 100 bc–ad 200
This chapter is framed by two aims: to refute Nilsson's view about the decline of animal sacrifice in the period under study; and to demonstrate the sometimes obligatory character of animal sacrifice in Greek communities in the same period. The first section smoothes the chronological gaps in the evidence, and argues that the practice of animal sacrifice was continuously present in Greek communities, even if its presence in the sources is intermi…
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Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200
Next to older scholarly approaches to sacrifice, a new way of understanding the mechanism of animal sacrifice is presented in this book, based on the intersection of two axes: the one vertical (linking humans to the deity), the other horizontal (that of reality). The horizontal axis consists of many sections, each one representing a particular realm of the offerer's reality. The book emphasizes the vigorous continuity of both Greek and Jewish ani…
From Greek Religion to Judaism
This chapter acts as a bridge between the chapter on Greek animal sacrifice and the chapter on Jewish animal sacrifice. It provides the classicist who is not familiar with Judaism with the necessary information about the Jewish sacrificial system and its differences from the Greek one. The chapter also describes the main crises in the history of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem until its destruction by the Romans in AD 70.
Greek Animal Sacrifice in the Period 100 bc–ad 200
This chapter is framed by two aims: to refute Nilsson's view about the decline of animal sacrifice in the period under study; and to demonstrate the sometimes obligatory character of animal sacrifice in Greek communities in the same period. The first section smoothes the chronological gaps in the evidence, and argues that the practice of animal sacrifice was continuously present in Greek communities, even if its presence in the sources is intermi…
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