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.
- ISBN10 0520036506
- ISBN13 9780520036505
- Publish Date February 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 January 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English