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.
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- Paperback | 360 pages
- 152 x 229 x 23mm | 408g
- 01 Jul 1992
- University of California Press
- Berkerley, United States
- English
- Reprint
- Ill.
- 0520058755
- 9780520058750
- 398,126
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