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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.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 360
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
20 November 1986
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520058750
Format: Paperback
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Translator's Preface
Preface to the English Edition
List of Illustrations
Introduction
I. Sacrifice, Hunting, and Funerary Rituals
II. Werewolves around the Tripod Kettle
III. Dissolution and New Year's Festival
IV. Anthesteria
V. Eleusis
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Index
Preface to the English Edition
List of Illustrations
Introduction
I. Sacrifice, Hunting, and Funerary Rituals
II. Werewolves around the Tripod Kettle
III. Dissolution and New Year's Festival
IV. Anthesteria
V. Eleusis
Abbreviations and Bibliography
Index