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- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Frontispiece
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Setting the Archaeological Scene
- 2 Introduction to the Thought of René Girard
- Part II Violence and the Sacred
- Part III The Dialectics of Mimesis
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
1 - Setting the Archaeological Scene
from Part I - Introduction
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Book contents
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Frontispiece
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Setting the Archaeological Scene
- 2 Introduction to the Thought of René Girard
- Part II Violence and the Sacred
- Part III The Dialectics of Mimesis
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near EastGirardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, pp. 3 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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