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James Rives: "Animal Sacrifice and Social Relations in Judaea and Rome"

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
5:15 PM to 7:15 PM
Main Quad, Building 110, Room 112
 
 
This talk will deal with the ways that animal sacrifice served to structure social relations and cultural identity in both  Graeco-Roman and Judaean culture, and to mediate between these two traditions'.
 
 

James Rives is Kenan Eminent Professor of Classics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His main area of scholarly interest is religion in the Roman imperial period, particularly the interrelation of religion with socio-political power and the nature of religious change between the 1st century BCE and the 4th century CE. His books include a study of religion in Roman Carthage (1995, a historical/historiographical commentary on Tacitus’ Germania (1999), and Religion in the Roman Empire (2007).