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Homo Necans: Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Homo Necans Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
Author: Walter Burkert
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.
ISBN-13: 9780520036505
ISBN-10: 0520036506
Pages: 360
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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