Animal Sacrifices Before Deities
Title | Animal Sacrifices Before Deities PDF eBook |
Author | Tarachand Devmal Gajra |
Publisher | Hesperides Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2006-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1406712477 |
Originally published in 1913. Author: Henri Lichtenberger Language: English Keywords: History Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Keywords: English Keywords 1900s Language English Artwork
Animal Sacrifices Before Deities
Title | Animal Sacrifices Before Deities PDF eBook |
Author | Tarachand D. Gajra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 1931 |
Genre | Animals |
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Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Title | Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Hitch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2017-08-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110821004X |
This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the whole of antiquity and go beyond the Greek world to consider possible influences in Hittite Anatolia and Egypt, while an introduction to the burgeoning science of osteo-archaeology is provided. The twentieth-century emphasis on sacrifice as part of the Classical Greek polis system is challenged through consideration of various ancient perspectives on sacrifice as distinct from specific political or even Greek contexts. Many previously unexplored topics are covered, particularly the type of animals sacrificed and the spectrum of sacrificial ritual, from libations to lasting memorials of the ritual in art.
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
Title | Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher A. Faraone |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2012-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107011124 |
The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.
King of Sacrifice
Title | King of Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Hitch |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thematic importance of animal sacrifice as an expression of the quarrel between Akhilleus and Agamemnon through the differing perspectives of the primary narrative and character speech.
Ohr Yisrael
Title | Ohr Yisrael PDF eBook |
Author | Israel Salanter |
Publisher | Targum Press |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Religion |
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A glowing treasure now available to the English-speaking public! The trail-blazing work of Rav Yisrael Salanter, and his disciple, Rav Yitzchak Blazer illuminate the darkness of our generation with wisdom and insight. This classic Mussar work focuses on attaining closeness with G-d and on ethical introspection. This volume is a compendium of four classics of ethical thought: The Gates of Light, The Light of Israel, Paths of Light, and Stars of Light. This extraordinary book, translated into lucid, flowing English, will enable all who read it to reach a new spiritual dimension. Contains English text only.
Animals, Gods and Humans
Title | Animals, Gods and Humans PDF eBook |
Author | Ingvild Saelid Gilhus |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2006-09-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134169167 |
Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, Animals, Gods and Humans covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals are rich and multilayered, and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus expertly examines the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals. Including study of: biographies of figures such as Apollonus of Tyana; natural history; the New Testament via Gnostic texts; the church fathers; and from pagan and Christian criticism of animal sacrifice, to the acts of martyrs, the source material and detailed analysis included in this volume make it a veritable feast of information for all classicists.