{"product_id":"sacrifice-in-pagan-and-christian-antiquity-paperback","title":"Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian Antiquity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert J. Daly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert J. Daly S.J. \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of Theology at Boston College, USA, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eSacrifice Unveiled \u003c\/i\u003e(T\u0026amp;T Clark, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453262872754,"sku":"9780567700391","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ddb828ed66fc1e2600204a2d31e5e972.webp?v=1778825340","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/sacrifice-in-pagan-and-christian-antiquity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}