The end of sacrifice : religious transformations in late antiquity / [manuscript] :
Guy G. Stroumsa ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
- [American ed.].
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009.
- xviii, 136 p. ; 23 cm.
"Originally published as La fin du sacrifice: les mutations religieuses de l'Antiquit ťardive, Odile Jacob, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Sacrifice--Rome. Christianity and other religions--Rome. Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.