:changing attitudes to animals in Greek, Roman, and early Christian Ideas
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Ingvild S'lid Gilhus
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London
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: Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 322 p.
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CONTENTS NOTE
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Animals in the Roman Empire -- United by soul or divided by reason -- Vegetarianism, natural history, and physiognomics -- Imagination and transformation -- The religious value of animals -- Animals sacrifice : traditions and new inventions -- God is a man-eater? : the animal sacrifice and its critics -- The New Testament and the Lamb of God -- Fighting the beasts -- Internal animals and bestial demons -- The crucified donkeyman, the leontocephalus, and the challenge of beasts -- Winged humans, speaking animals.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Animals- Religious aspects- History of doctrines
Animals- Religious aspects- Christianity- History of doctrines- Early church, ca. 30-600