Robert M. Grant

Early Christians and Animals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Early Christians and Animals presents a lively study of the significance of animals in early Christian thought, tradition, text and art.
Robert M. Grant:
_ examines the diverse and often conflicting sources, from the pagan antecedents Aristotle and Pliny, to Biblical animal references and the Church fathers
_ provides fresh translations of key texts concerning animals - the Physiologus, Basils homilies and Isidores chapters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780415518871
• ISBN-10: 0415518873
• Artikelnr.: 35058209

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Grant is Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus, Department of New Testament & Early Christian Literature and Divinity School, University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous works on early Christianity, including Paul in the Roman World, A Short History of the Interpretation of the Bible, Gnosticism and Early Christianity, The Early Christian Doctrine of God, and Augustus to Constantine.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Biblical animals 2 Unusual animals 3 Unreal animals 4 Alexandrians and the Physiologus 5 Antiochenes and Basil the Great 6 The Latin Fathers and Isidore: portents 7 Isidore of Seville, Book 12 On Animals

Rezensionen

'A readable, erudite, and fascinating contribution to the history of Western civilization.' - International Review of Biblical Studies

'The work is very well referenced and there are 22 drawings ... It would make a good present for an animal lover or anyone interested in early church history, or the allegorical meaning of animals in early Christian art.' - Annals Australia

'A readable, erudite, and fascinating contribution to the history of Western civilization.' - International Review of Biblical Studies

'The work is very well referenced and there are 22 drawings ... It would make a good present for an animal lover or anyone interested in early church history, or the allegorical meaning of animals in early Christian art.' - Annals Australia