8. No End to Sacrifice in Hermetism
| Dublin Core | PKP Metadata Items | Metadata for this Document | |
| 1. | Title | Title of document | 8. No End to Sacrifice in Hermetism - Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Christian Bull; University of Bergen; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religion; Philosophy |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Corpus Hermeticum; animal sacrifice; material sacrifice |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | In a similar vein to the preceeding chapter, and likewise proceeding from the Corpus Hermeticum, Christian Bull follows a recent scholarly development in the evaluation of the Hermetic treatises as appendages of a real cultic community. Bull insists on rectifying the notion of the Hermetic spiritual and spoken exercises as dismissals of material sacrifice. Unlike the intentions of traditional Graeco-Roman animal sacrifice to increase the prosperity of land and lineage, the concept of material sacrifice in ancient Egypt was distinctly tied to a concept of piety and cosmic order. This notion responds well with the ideals of both Jewish and Hermetic communities in Late Antiquity. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 11-Feb-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/28079 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.28079 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Ancient Greece; Ancient Egypt; Jewish communities , late antiquity |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |