Homo Necans: Die Anthropologie des Opferrituals und Mythos im antiken Griechenland

Author/Contributor(s):	Burkert, Walter
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	11/20/1986
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	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 question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.