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An analysis of Greek drama and the basis of social violence.
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His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy. -- Victor Brombert * Chronicle of Higher Education *
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René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995.
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- PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0485113414
- ISBN 13 9780485113419
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages339
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Violence and the Sacred Bible: Liberating the Bible from Its Own Myth of Sacrifice
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