Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Burkert, Walter - 1986

University of California Press, 1986-11-20. 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, 1983. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780520058750

California University Press, 1983. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0520058755

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

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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. 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

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