In the Eye of the Animal : : Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity / / Patricia Cox Miller.
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detaile...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 11 illus. |
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