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Title: HOMO NECANS
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ANCIENT GREEK SACRIFICIAL RITUAL AND MYTH
By: Walter Burkert, Peter Bing (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0520058755
ISBN 13: 9780520058750
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 20 November, 1986
Pages: 360
Description: Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question.
Synopsis: Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.
Illustrations: Ill.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
Returns: Returnable
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