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Author Stroumsa, Guy G.

Uniform Title Fin du sacrifice. English
Title The end of sacrifice : religious transformations in late antiquity / Guy G. Stroumsa ; translated by Susan Emanuel.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  261.22 St89e 2009    ---  Available
Edition [American ed.].
Description xviii, 136 p. ; 23 cm.
Note "Originally published as La fin du sacrifice: les mutations religieuses de l'Antiquite tardive, Odile Jacob, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface to the American edition -- A new care of the self -- The rise of religions of the book -- Transformations of ritual -- From civic religion to community religion -- From wisdom teacher to spiritual master.
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, approximately 30-600.
Rome -- Civilization -- Christian influences.
Sacrifice -- Rome.
Christianity and other religions -- Rome.
Rome -- Religion.
Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
ISBN 0226777383 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226777382 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. BWX R2773032
CDX 8493828
AU@ 000043189491
NLGGC 317769537

 
    
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