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  Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (Paperback) By (author) Walter Burkert, Translated by Peter Bing

  

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  Short Description for Homo Necans 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.
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  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Published: 01 February 1987
  • Format: Paperback 360 pages
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  • Categories: Anthropology | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
  • ISBN 13: 9780520058750 ISBN 10: 0520058755
  • Sales rank: 300,510

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• 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.