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Burkert, Walter, (Translated By Peter Bing)

HOMO NECANS the Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

University of California Press, 1983

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Year of publication
1983
Author
Burkert, Walter, (Translated By Peter Bing)
Publishers
University of California Press
Keyword
Myth And Mythology Sacrificial Rites & Ceremonies Paganism, Anthropology Greek Religion Greek History
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0520036506

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Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [nйe Ward]). Dustjacket has a couple of large tears with chipping. ; 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 posed in Walter Burkert's famous study. ; 360 pages