The Power of Sacrifice: Roman and Christian discourses in conflict ISBN: 9780813216942 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Catholic University of America Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sacrifice; Church history; Rome -- Religion; Martyrdom -- Christianity;
In this work, George Heyman offers a fresh perspective on the similarities between pagan Roman and Christian thinking about the public role of sacrifice in the first two and a half centuries of the Christian era.