Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual Freddy "the Beard" Bentivegna or to Matthew's world at

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Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual Freddy "the Beard" Bentivegna or to Matthew's world atThis 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