Faith or Fate: Virgin Sacrifice in Greek Tragedies and in the New Testmant
The purpose of this article is to show that sacrifices performed in the ancient world is not only limited to the ritual killing of a person for religious purposes. Instead, sacrifices also include personal sacrifices. By reading a few Greek tragedies and selected texts from the New Testament, scenes...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Neotestamentica
Year: 2025, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 581-602 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Virgin sacrifice
/ Tragedy
/ Greek language
/ New Testament
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| RelBib Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to show that sacrifices performed in the ancient world is not only limited to the ritual killing of a person for religious purposes. Instead, sacrifices also include personal sacrifices. By reading a few Greek tragedies and selected texts from the New Testament, scenes depicting the different forms of sacrifices were selected in order to conduct the study. It was noticed that the different forms of sacrifices include the killing of a person as well as the personal sacrifice. A common denominator was found in the sacrifices of both the Greek tragedies as well as the New Testament where the person being sacrificed was a virgin. Thus, the theme of the study was based on the virgin sacrifices found in the Greek tragedies and the New Testament. Furthermore, the virgin sacrifices were further analysed based on the idea whether the sacrifice was committed based on fate or faith. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2025.a978171 |
