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Walter Burkert

Homo Necans

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780520058750
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Nov 1986
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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 question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.