Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual Freddy "the Beard" Bentivegna Lucas Thatcher has always been

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Wayne Karlin is the author of numerous books

was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2011)

and more than 20 years research in the Six Healing Sounds

Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual Freddy "the Beard" Bentivegna Lucas Thatcher has always beenThis pioneering study examines the use of blood to purge the effects of sin and impurity in Hittite and biblical ritual. The idea that blood atones for sins holds a prominent place in both Jewish and Christian traditions. The author traces this notion back to its earliest documentation in the fourteenth and thirteenth century B. C. E. texts from Hittite Anatolia, in which the smearing of blood is used as a means of expiation, purification, and