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In the Eye of the Animal

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

In the Eye of the Animal

By Patricia Cox Miller

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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 detailed in Genesis-and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of ge...Show more

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9780812250350

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

In the Eye of the Animal

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Hardcover

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