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Language: en
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-05 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.
Language: en
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-14 - Publisher: OUP USA
An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial perio
Language: en
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
A study of animal sacrifice within Greek paganism, Judaism, and Christianity between 100 BC and AD 200. After a vivid account of the realities of sacrifice in t
Language: en
Pages: 438
Pages: 438
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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