Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Walter Burkert - 1983

University of California Press, November 1986. Trade Paperback. Used - Good .

University of California Press, 1986-11-20. paperback. Acceptable. 5x0x8. Remarkably worn and marked but legible. Ships promptly.

University of California Press, 1986-11-20. paperback. Used: Good.

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 e

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

University of California Press, Berkeley (...), 1983. XXV,334p. Paperback. Nice copy. 'Burkert is the most penetratingly original, learned, and productive of living experts on Greek releigion ... (Homo Necans is) an exceptional intellectual experience. No one else in the field has the same power of opening unimagined vistas into the remote past.' (M.L. WEST in Journal of Hellenic Studies). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott.

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Univ of California Pr, 1986. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 360 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.