Article: Animal Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200.(Brief article)(Book review)

Animal Sacrifice In Ancient Greek Religion, Judaism, And Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200

Maria-Zoe Petropoulou

Oxford University Press

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Blood sacrifice is a fundamental aspect of most antiquarian religious belief systems including what would become the Judeo-Christian religions of the western world. Christianity would view the crucifixion of Jesus as the ultimate blood sacrifice and replace animal sacrifice with the sacraments of wine and bread taking the symbolic place of flesh and blood. But how was animal sacrifice carried out ...

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